Arguing that missionaries occupied ambiguous positions in colonial cultures, Anna Johnston analyzes missionary writing under the aegis of the British Empire. Johnston reveals how missionaries were caught between imperial and religious interests through an examination of texts published by the largest and most influential nineteenth-century evangelical institution, the London Missionary Society. Texts from Indian, Polynesian, and Australian missions are also examined to highlight their representation of nineteenth-century evangelical activity in relationship to gender, colonialism, and race.

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Missionary writing and empire, 1800-1860

Keeping Europe in Order Conservative International Political Thought in Victorian Britain, 1854-1880

Defining the victorian nation: class, race, gender and the reform act of 1867

The idea of ‘Greater Britain’ has been associated with the later Victorian era, but it was anticipated in most important particulars. This article examines perhaps the most ambitious single text on...

Robert Montgomery Martin and the Origins of ‘Greater Britain’

(2004). After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and through the Nation. History: Reviews of New Books: Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 120-120.

After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and through the Nation

Congregational Missions and the Making of an Imperial Culture in Nineteenth-Century England, and: Good Citizens: British Missionaries and Imperial States, 1870-1918 (review)

This essay focuses on the experiences of Thomas Babington Macaulay, both with his family and in India, and the ways in which these experiences contributed to the insular and assimilationist vision that he so memorably narrated in his great History of England . Exploring the split between his public exterior—successful and confident to the point of complacency—and the private man's tormented sense of loss, this essay argues that his heroic story of a homogenous people and a progressive nation was structured by its systematic exclusions and its strategies of distantiation and disavowal.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/VIC.2009.51.3.505

Macaulay's nation

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/victorian_studies/v045/45.4hall.pdf

Catherine Hall

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Congregational Missions and the Making of an Imperial Culture in Nineteenth-Century England, and: Good Citizens: British Missionaries and Imperial States, 1870-1918 (review)

Macaulay's nation

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