Christian Leitz
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198206453
- eISBN:
- 9780191677137
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198206453.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History, Economic History
This section concludes in stating a recent study on the ideological origins of Nazi imperialism by Woodruff Smith. It notes that in Smith's final analysis of Hitler's ‘imperialism’, ‘the disparity ...
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This section concludes in stating a recent study on the ideological origins of Nazi imperialism by Woodruff Smith. It notes that in Smith's final analysis of Hitler's ‘imperialism’, ‘the disparity between Lebensraum and Weltpolitik was not eliminated by Hitler’. It continues that Smith's argument on Hitler's imperialist ideology also incorporated a substantial number of economic imperialist ideas and that Hitler believed that one of the aspects of his overall policy included the establishment of a form of German economic hegemony over a vaguely defined but large segment of the European continent.Less
This section concludes in stating a recent study on the ideological origins of Nazi imperialism by Woodruff Smith. It notes that in Smith's final analysis of Hitler's ‘imperialism’, ‘the disparity between Lebensraum and Weltpolitik was not eliminated by Hitler’. It continues that Smith's argument on Hitler's imperialist ideology also incorporated a substantial number of economic imperialist ideas and that Hitler believed that one of the aspects of his overall policy included the establishment of a form of German economic hegemony over a vaguely defined but large segment of the European continent.
Norman Etherington
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199253487
- eISBN:
- 9780191698156
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199253487.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, World Modern History
This introductory chapter explains the coverage of this book, which is about the relations between the Christian missions and the British Empire during the period from the 17th century to the 1960s. ...
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This introductory chapter explains the coverage of this book, which is about the relations between the Christian missions and the British Empire during the period from the 17th century to the 1960s. This book examines the connections between the explosive expansion of Christianity in Africa and Asia and the spread of European economic and political hegemony during this period. It also analyses the contributions of Christian missions in the field of medicine, anthropology, language and decolonization.Less
This introductory chapter explains the coverage of this book, which is about the relations between the Christian missions and the British Empire during the period from the 17th century to the 1960s. This book examines the connections between the explosive expansion of Christianity in Africa and Asia and the spread of European economic and political hegemony during this period. It also analyses the contributions of Christian missions in the field of medicine, anthropology, language and decolonization.
Norman Etherington (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199253487
- eISBN:
- 9780191698156
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199253487.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, World Modern History
The explosive expansion of Christianity in Africa and Asia during the last two centuries constitutes one of the most remarkable cultural transformations in the history of mankind. Because it ...
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The explosive expansion of Christianity in Africa and Asia during the last two centuries constitutes one of the most remarkable cultural transformations in the history of mankind. Because it coincided with the spread of European economic and political hegemony, it tends to be taken for granted that Christian missions went hand in hand with imperialism and colonial conquest. In this book historians survey the relationship between Christian missions and the British Empire from the seventeenth century to the 1960s and treat the subject thematically, rather than regionally or chronologically. Many of these themes are treated at length for the first time, relating the work of missions to language, medicine, anthropology, and decolonization. Other important chapters focus on the difficult relationship between missionaries and white settlers, women and mission, and the neglected role of the indigenous evangelists who did far more than European or North American missionaries to spread the Christian religion — belying the image of Christianity as the ‘white man's religion’.Less
The explosive expansion of Christianity in Africa and Asia during the last two centuries constitutes one of the most remarkable cultural transformations in the history of mankind. Because it coincided with the spread of European economic and political hegemony, it tends to be taken for granted that Christian missions went hand in hand with imperialism and colonial conquest. In this book historians survey the relationship between Christian missions and the British Empire from the seventeenth century to the 1960s and treat the subject thematically, rather than regionally or chronologically. Many of these themes are treated at length for the first time, relating the work of missions to language, medicine, anthropology, and decolonization. Other important chapters focus on the difficult relationship between missionaries and white settlers, women and mission, and the neglected role of the indigenous evangelists who did far more than European or North American missionaries to spread the Christian religion — belying the image of Christianity as the ‘white man's religion’.
David Seed
Susan Castillo (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846311802
- eISBN:
- 9781846315084
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846315084
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
In this collection, leading scholars in the field examine the interfaces between narratives of travel and of empire. The term ‘American’, used here in the hemispheric sense, and ‘American travel ...
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In this collection, leading scholars in the field examine the interfaces between narratives of travel and of empire. The term ‘American’, used here in the hemispheric sense, and ‘American travel writing’ include both writing about America by visitors and writings by Americans abroad. The contributors are recognized specialists in different periods of American literature and travel writing. The chapters explore the ways in which descriptions of the landscapes and peoples of colonized territories shaped perceptions of these areas; the transmission of images and metaphors between colony and metropole; the othering of non-scribal cultures as ‘primitive’ or ‘wild’; the deployment of representations of encounters between European and other cultures in order to critique or reinforce European or American values and cultural practices; and the tacit assumptions of cultural or economic hegemony underlying U.S. or European travel writing.Less
In this collection, leading scholars in the field examine the interfaces between narratives of travel and of empire. The term ‘American’, used here in the hemispheric sense, and ‘American travel writing’ include both writing about America by visitors and writings by Americans abroad. The contributors are recognized specialists in different periods of American literature and travel writing. The chapters explore the ways in which descriptions of the landscapes and peoples of colonized territories shaped perceptions of these areas; the transmission of images and metaphors between colony and metropole; the othering of non-scribal cultures as ‘primitive’ or ‘wild’; the deployment of representations of encounters between European and other cultures in order to critique or reinforce European or American values and cultural practices; and the tacit assumptions of cultural or economic hegemony underlying U.S. or European travel writing.
