The British missionary enterprise since 1700 / Jeffrey Cox.

Originally published 2008.

PART I: The religious crisis of the British imperial state, 1700-1800. Introduction: religion and empire in the modern world -- Confessional improvisation -- Voluntarist improvisation -- -- PART II: Building a movement, 1800-1870. "Little detachments of maniacs": early failures -- The home base: networks and societies -- Missionary literature: the defamation of the "other". The missionary hero and missionary institutions -- -- PART III: Imperial high noon, 1870-1945. The growth of mission institutions before the Great War -- Conflict and consensus in mission institutions -- Ecclesiastical sprawl: the triumph of bricks and mortar -- -- PART IV: Post-colonial missions since 1945. Evangelicals and unreached peoples.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [298]-309) and index.