Early Capitalism in Colonial Missions: Moravian Household Economies in the Global Eighteenth Century
Ebook
Drawing on unpublished archival material, this volume compares Moravian economic practice in three different mission-settings, to demonstrate how Moravian practices evolved during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.
A study into changing social relations between Moravian missionaries and Indigenous people in Greenland and the Australian colonies during the age of empire.
Offers a comparative study of two Moravian missionary settlements in the 18th and 19th centuries
Situates the missions within wider contexts of empire, colonization and a globalizing economy
Analyzes social change in colonial contexts
Sheds light on previously understudied archival documents
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
Index
- Title: Early Capitalism in Colonial Missions: Moravian Household Economies in the Global Eighteenth Century
- Author: Christina Petterson
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
- Print Publication Date: 2024
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781350122109, 9781350122086, 1350122084, 1350122106
- Resource ID: LLS:9781350122109
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-04-09T04:10:44Z