Empire and Scottish Society: The Impact of Foreign Missions at Home, c. 1800 to c. 1914

Esther Breitenbach

July, 2009
Cloth, 208 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-7486-3620-4
Edinburgh University Press
$105.00

This original book considers the mediation of empire by the foreign mission movement. The book gives depth and substance to general claims that empire permeated the lives of Scots in the 19th century and that Scots articulated a strong sense of national identity in the context of empire. It affirms the importance of civil society, and especially of religious institutions in this period, in the construction of representations of national identity.

Related Subjects

• European History

About the Author

Esther Breitenbach is teaching fellow at the University of Edinburgh. She is co-author of Out of Bounds and The World is Ill-Divided (both published by Edinburgh University Press).

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