Early Capitalism in Colonial Missions - Moravian Household Economies in the Global Eighteenth Century

Drawing on unpublished archival material, this volume compares two Moravian missions, in Greenland and Australia, to demonstrate how their practices evolved over the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries as part of a globalizing world and economy. Delivering in-depth analysis of the far-reaching and deep-seated effects of missionary activity on indigenous communities and social relations, it also explores how the indigenous were ''othered'' in empire, and the role missionaries played in this process. Petterson provides an insight into the lives of indigenous peoples, and the missionaries who lived amongst them, at a time of changing identities and socio-economic change. Analysing how missionary practice developed over this period, it also demonstrates how attitudes to and engagement with indigenous peoples transformed. Standing outside of national and imperial boundaries, and ambivalent about the political notion of imperialism and colonisation itself, nonetheless missionaries functioned in parallel with colonial structures, and were part of a broadly culturally colonial mission. On the outskirts of imperial organisation, they were often a crucial part of colonial practice. This book examines both missionaries and indigenous peoples as ''others'' in imperial systems through the economic and cultural practices of their spiritual colonialism.>

Product details

• Authors: Christina Petterson, Petterson Christina
• Assisted by: Fae Dussart (Editor), Victoria Haskins (Editor), Emily J. Manktelow (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2024
• EAN: 9781350122086
• ISBN: 978-1-350-12208-6
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Empire's Other Histories; Empire’s Other Histories
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Australia, RELIGION / History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Greenland, Czech Republic, Colonialism & imperialism, History of Religion, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Social and cultural history, Colonialism and imperialism, C 1700 To C 1800, Protestantism & Protestant Churches, Protestantism and Protestant Churches