Welsh Missionaries and British Imperialism The Empire of Clouds in North-East India

Informationen zum Autor Andrew J. May is Professor of History in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne Klappentext This book follows Thomas Jones, the first Welsh missionary from rural Wales to Cherrapunji, now one of the most Christianised parts of India. It foregrounds broader political, scientific, racial and military ideologies that mobilised the Khasi Hills into an interconnected network of imperial control. Zusammenfassung This book follows Thomas Jones! the first Welsh missionary from rural Wales to Cherrapunji! now one of the most Christianised parts of India. It foregrounds broader political! scientific! racial and military ideologies that mobilised the Khasi Hills into an interconnected network of imperial control. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis General editor's introductionPrologueIntroductionPart I Preparations1. Some kind of preacher2. Voyaging: two places at once3. Networks and precursorsPart II The flag on the mountain4. Drawing the frontier5. The tranquillity of the borders6. The richest collections7. Creatures of a day: Christian soldiersPart III The work on the Hills8. The banner of the cross9. Cultural transactions: the letter and the gift10. Intimacy and transgressionPart IV The borderlands of law and belief11. The pen and the sabre12. The refulgent cross and the heathen carnival13. The country is oursConclusionEpilogueBibliographyIndex

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• Authors: Andrew May, Andrew J. May
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 01.11.2012
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories
• EAN: 9780719080357
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8035-7
• Pages: 312
• Series: Studies in Imperialism (Hardco; Studies in Imperialism
• Subjects: Wales, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, Political Ideologies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), morality, India, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Wales, Colonialism & imperialism, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, Colonialism and imperialism, Wales / Cymru, prejudices, British imperialism; Christianisation; geographical isolation; imperial control; imperial interconnection; Khasi Hills; military ideologies; morality; networked conception; nineteenth century Wales; north-eastern India; political ideologies; prejudic, imperial control, Thomas Jones, racial ideologies, state authority, geographical isolation, Welsh missionary, Christianisation, religious ambitions, Khasi Hills, imperial interconnection, sexual scandal, scientific ideologies, military ideologies, north-eastern India, nineteenth century Wales, networked conception