Early capitalism in colonial missions [electronic resource] : Moravian household economies in the global eighteenth century / Christina Petterson.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2024.
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| Series: | Empire's other histories.
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| Abstract: | "Drawing on unpublished archival material, this volume compares Moravian economic practice in three different mission-settings, to demonstrate how Moravian practices evolved during the 18th century 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 explores how different economic contexts had an impact on the missionaries relations with Indigenous and slave-populations in empire. Petterson provides an insight how the missionaries worked, lived among various non-European peoples, and how they organized themselves and their surroundings at a time of changing identities and socio-economic change. Analysing how missionary practice developed over this period, it also demonstrates the Moravian leadership's priorities and how this affected attitudes to non-European peoples on the ground. Standing outside of national and imperial boundaries, and ambivalent about the political notion of imperialism as well as colonization itself, Moravian missionaries nonetheless functioned in parallel with colonial structures, and were part of a broadly culturally colonial mission. So, even on the outskirts of imperial organization, they were often a crucial part of colonial practice and took part in normalizing capitalist relations in many-but not all-settings, as this book demonstrates." -- Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 211 pages) : illustrations, fascimiles. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [188]-202) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781350122093 1350122092 9781350122109 1350122106 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed May 9, 2024). |