The Civilising Mission and the English Middle Class, 1792-1850

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: The Middle Class and the Civilising Mission 'One Blood': The Heathen at Home and Overseas in Late Eighteenth- and Early- Nineteenth Century Missions Charity begun at Home: Missionary Philanthropy and the New Middle Class, Sheffield 1804-1823 Missionary Domesticity and 'woman's sphere': The Reads of Wincobank Hall 'Bringing about the World's Restoration': Missionary Women and the Creation of a Global Christian Community, 1816-1832 Trembling Philanthropists? Missionary Philanthropy under Pressure in the 1830s and 1840s 'A Christian and Civilised Land'? The English Missionary and the South Pacific in the 1820s - 1840s Conclusions Endnotes Bibliography