Early Capitalism in Colonial Missions

Moravian Household Economies in the Global Eighteenth Century

Christina Petterson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-12208-6 (ISBN)

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Drawing on unpublished archival material, this volume compares Moravian economic practice in three different mission-settings, to demonstrate how Moravian practices evolved during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 organised 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 how 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 colonisation 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 organisation, they were often a crucial part of colonial practice and took part in normalising capitalist relations in many—but not all—settings, as this book demonstrates.

Christina Petterson is Honorary Research Fellow at University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and Australian National University, Australia. She has published widely on the role of Christianity in social history, both in ancient times, in colonialism and in 18th-century Europe.

1. The Moravian Brethren

Part I: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
2. Moravians and Money
3. Change in Leadership and Change in Organisation: The Case of Bethlehem’s General Economy
New-Herrnhut in St. Thomas, the West Indies
4. Time of transition and change in mission: 1760-1764 in the Moravian Unity
5..“Plantation Disposition”: The “Outer”Sphere and the Accumulation of Riches in the Danish West Indies
Part II: New-Herrnhut, Greenland
6. Greenland and Colonial Authorities
7. Developing the “Inner Sphere”
Conclusion: Moravians and Capitalism

Bibliography
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Erscheinungsdatum	28.12.2023
Reihe/Serie	Empire’s Other Histories
Zusatzinfo	20 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum
ISBN-10	1-350-12208-4 / 1350122084
ISBN-13	978-1-350-12208-6 / 9781350122086
Zustand	Neuware