A compelling study of Anglican Evangelicalism in the Age of
Wilberforce revealing its potency as a political machine whose
reach extended into every area of the British establishment and its
nascent Empire. SHORTLISTED for the EHS Book Prize 2020 The
moralism that characterized the decades either side of 1800 - the
so-called 'Age of William Wilberforce' - has long been regarded as
having a massive impact on British culture. Yet the reasons why
Wilberforce and his Evangelical contemporaries were so influential
politically and in the wider public sphere have never been properly
understood. Converting Britannia shows for thefirst time how and
why religious reformism carried such weight. Evangelicalism, it
argues, was not just an innovative social phenomenon, but also a
political machine that exploited establishment strengths to
replicate itself at home and internationally. The book maps
networks that spanned the churches, universities, business, armed
forces and officialdom, connecting London and the regions with
Europe and the world, from business milieux in the Cityof London
and elsewhere through the Royal Navy, the Colonial Office and East
India and Sierra Leone companies. Revealing how religion drove
debates about British history and identity in the first half of the
nineteenth century, itthrows new light not just on the networks
themselves, but on cheap print, mass-production and the public
sphere: the interconnecting technologies that sustained religion in
a rapidly modernizing age and projected it into new contexts
abroad. GARETH ATKINS is a Bye-Fellow at Queens' College,
University of Cambridge.
General
| Imprint: |
Boydell & Brewer
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Studies in the Eighteenth Century |
| Release date: |
April 2024 |
| First published: |
2024 |
| Authors: |
Gareth Atkins
|
| Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
345 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-83765-126-9 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-83765-126-4 |
| Barcode: |
9781837651269 |
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