Missionary Discourses of Difference: Negotiating Otherness in the British Empire, 1840-1900

Missionary Discourse examines missionary writings from India and southern Africa to explore colonial discourses about race, religion, gender and culture. The book is organised around three themes: family, sickness and violence, which were key areas of missionary concern, and important axes around which colonial difference was forged.

Author: E. Cleall
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 06/29/2012
Pages: 243
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780230296800

About the Author
ESME CLEALL studied at the University of Sheffield, UK, before completing a PhD at UCL. She currently teaches Modern History at the University of Liverpool. Her research is on the social and cultural history of Britain and its Empire and the intersections between 'race', 'gender' and 'disability' in colonial thought. Her new project investigates nineteenth-century understandings of deafness.