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"With My Precious Salvation and my Umbrella": The London Missionary Society and the making of empire in early Victorian Britain.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"With My Precious Salvation and my Umbrella": The London Missionary Society and the making of empire in early Victorian Britain./
Author:	Fletcher, Alison Sara.
Description:	275 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Judith R. Walkowitz.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-02A.
Subject:	History, Church. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3080658
ISBN:	9780496285334

"With My Precious Salvation and my Umbrella": The London Missionary Society and the making of empire in early Victorian Britain.
Fletcher, Alison Sara.

"With My Precious Salvation and my Umbrella": The London Missionary Society and the making of empire in early Victorian Britain. - 275 p.

Adviser: Judith R. Walkowitz.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Johns Hopkins University, 2003.

Centering on Britain in the early Victorian period, 'With My Precious Salvation' investigates the interventions by the London Missionary Society (LMS) in colonial policymaking and the written material, images and spectacle produced by the Society to raise enthusiasm for overseas missions. Towards the end of the 1830s, the Society faced two interlocking challenges. In Britain, the growing concern over domestic issues resulted in a decline of enthusiasm amongst evangelicals for the establishment of overseas missions, which precipitated a fiscal crisis for the Society. At the same time, the Society was confronted with challenges to its missions in Madagascar and southern Africa from indigenous rulers, colonial administrators and white settlers. To reverse the decline in its fortunes, the Society organized innovative strategies that sought to shape colonial policy and to raise domestic enthusiasm for overseas missions.

ISBN: 9780496285334Subjects--Topical Terms:

1020179
History, Church.

"With My Precious Salvation and my Umbrella": The London Missionary Society and the making of empire in early Victorian Britain.
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