Susan Thorne

Journal Article small axe · March 2012 Featured Publication The Slave Compensation Commission distributed no less than ₤20 million between 1834 and 1845, making compensation “the largest single financial operation undertaken by the British state to date” (270). Nicholas Draper utilizes the Commission’s untapped r ... Full text Link to item Cite

Feminism and empire: women activists in imperial Britain, 1790–1865 - By Clare Midgley. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. Pp. x + 206. Hardback £70.00, ISBN 978-0-415-25014-6; paperback £19.99, ISBN 978-0-415-25015-3.

Other Journal of Global History · November 2011 Full text Cite

Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History. By Frederick Cooper

Other The European Legacy · April 2007 Open Access Cite

Imperial Pieties

Other History Workshop Journal · January 1, 2007 Full text Open Access Cite

Southern Discomfort, in The Poetics of the Sacred and the Politics of Knowledge: Six Geographies of Encounter, ed. Teresa Berger

Other Worlds and Knowledges Otherwise · April 1, 2006 Featured Publication Susan Thorne’s essay applies the narrative conventions of social history to a white Southerner’s faith journey. Religion figures in her autobiographical reflections as institutional space and social network, as site of community activism and as spiritual e ... Cite

Religion and empire at home

Chapter · January 1, 2006 Featured Publication Organised religion was one of the most powerful sources of inspiration and sites of association in Victorian Britain. Few historians who work on the nineteenth century today would object to G. Kitson Clark's revisionist insistence in 1962 that ‘in no other ... Full text Cite

Review Essay: Catherine Hall, Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830-1867

Journal Article Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History · 2005 Link to item Cite

Imperial fault lines: Christianity and colonial power in India, 1818-1940

Other VICTORIAN STUDIES · 2005 Cite

Review of The Changing Shape of English Nonconformity, 1825-1925 by Dale A. Johnson

Other The American Historical Review · April 2001 Full text Cite

Congregational Missions and the Making of an imperial Culture in 19th Century England

Book · 1999 Cite

Missionary Imperial Feminism

Chapter · 1999 Cite

’The Conversion of Englishmen and the Conversion of the World Inseparable’: Missionary Imperialism and the Language of Class, 1750-1850

Chapter · 1997 Featured Publication Cite

Fungusamongus; Or, An Imperial Idea without Enemies

Other Journal of British Studies · January 1994 Cite

Fungusamongus; Or, An Imperial Idea without Enemies - Popular Imperialism and the Military: 1850–1950. Edited by John M. MacKenzie. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1992. Pp. ix + 228. $69.95. - Cheap Bibles: Nineteenth-Century Publishing and the British and Foreign Bible Society. By Leslie Howsam. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xviii + 245. $54.95. - European Women and the Second British Empire. By Margaret Strobel. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1991. Pp. xiii + 108. $27.50. - Western Women and Imperialism: Complicity and Resistance. Edited by Nupor Chaudhuri and Margaret Strobel. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1992. Pp. 288. $39.95.

Other Journal of British Studies · January 1994 Full text Cite

Reply to ’The Poverty of Protest’ and ’The Imaginary Discontents’

Journal Article Social History · May 1993 Cite

THE IDEAL OF THE SELF-GOVERNING CHURCH - A STUDY IN VICTORIAN MISSIONARY STRATEGY - WILLIAMS,CP

Other VICTORIAN STUDIES · 1993 Cite

CLASS ANALYSIS, POPULAR POLITICS AND THE LINGUISTIC TURN IN 19TH-CENTURY ENGLISH HISTORY

Other CONSORTIUM ON REVOLUTIONARY EUROPE 1750-1850, PROCEEDINGS, 1992 · January 1, 1993 Link to item Cite

Social History and Its Discontents: Gareth Stedman Jones and the Politics of Language

Journal Article Social History · May 1992 This paper queries the mounting tide of discontent with social analysis embodied in British history’s recent ’linguistic turn’. Using the trajectory of Gareth Stedman Jones’s work as a basis for discussion, the authors compare the treatment of politics wit ... Cite