
Published online:
24 May 2012
Published in print:
06 February 1997
Online ISBN:
9780520918085
Print ISBN:
9780520205406
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Charity Begins at Home Charity Begins at Home
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Gentlemanly Capitalism and Its Discontents Gentlemanly Capitalism and Its Discontents
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“As Heathen as Darkest Africa” “As Heathen as Darkest Africa”
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Evangelical Political Economy and Popular Racial Identities Evangelical Political Economy and Popular Racial Identities
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Notes Notes
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Chapter
6 “The Conversion of Englishmen and the Conversion of the World Inseparable”: Missionary Imperialism and the Language of Class in Early Industrial Britain
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238–262
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Published:February 1997
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Thorne, Susan, '“The Conversion of Englishmen and the Conversion of the World Inseparable”: Missionary Imperialism and the Language of Class in Early Industrial Britain', in Frederick Cooper, and Ann Laura Stoler (eds), Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World (Oakland, CA , 1997; online edn, California Scholarship Online, 24 May 2012), https://doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520205406.003.0007, accessed 7 May 2025.
Abstract
This chapter focuses on the evangelical and missionary association of the heathen classes at home with the heathen races that populated Britain's colonial empire at the turn of the nineteenth century, investigating when and why evangelical ministers began to view the laboring poor as comparable to the Empire's heathen races. It also examines what the heathens abroad and heathens at home have in common in the minds of contemporary evangelicals.
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