British Philanthropy in the Globalizing World: Entrepreneurs and Evangelicals, 1756-1840 (Oxford Historical Monographs)

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British Philanthropy in the Globalizing World: Entrepreneurs and Evangelicals, 1756–1840
Copyright
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Illustrations
Notes on the Text
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Between the King’s Arms and Exeter Hall
	I.1 Defining Philanthropy
	I.2 Approach and Structure
PART I: THE GROWTH OF PHILANTHROPY
	1: ‘How Much a Man with the Blessingof God May Do’: John Thornton and the Formation of Philanthropic Networks
		1.1 Commercial, Religious, and Family Networks
		1.2 The Philanthropic Entrepreneur
		1.3 Forming Philanthropists
	2: ‘The Vast Machinery Establishedamongst Us’: The Growth of Associational Philanthropy
		2.1 The Philanthropic Nexus, c.1760
		2.2 The Partial Integration of Banking, Religion, and Philanthropy, 1772–1783
		2.3 The Philanthropic Nexus, c.1788
		2.4 Banking Networks and the Auxiliary Revolution, c.1800–1815
PART II: THE CLAPHAM SECT
	3: ‘The Society of the Excellent of the Earth’: Reframing the Clapham Sect
		3.1 Between Battersea Rise and Holy Trinity
		3.2 The Clapham Sect within the Philanthropic Nexus
		3.3 Framing the Clapham Sect
		3.4 The Clapham Sect in Operation
		3.5 Self-understandings
		3.6 The Fading of the Clapham Sect
	4: ‘The Cement of Society’: Trust and the Intellectual School of Clapham
		4.1 Thomas Gisborne, Morality, and Interest
		4.2 William Wilberforce, ‘Real Christianity’, and Public Leadership
		4.3 Henry Thornton, Currency, and Trust
		4.4 Trust as an Explanatory Idea in Philanthropy
		4.5 Trust in Other Clapham Sect Writings
		4.6 The Clapham School in Context
PART III: THE SPREAD OF PHILANTHROPY
	5: ‘Every Region of the Globe Its Representative’: The Development of Transnational Philanthropy
		5.1 The Origins of Transnational Philanthropic Networks
		5.2 Bengal, c.1780–1790
		5.3 Sierra Leone, 1791–1807
		5.4 New Zealand, 1808–c.1823
		5.5 Transfers and Translations
		5.6 Reconfigurations, 1813–1833
	6: ‘Teach Mercy to Ten Thousand Hearts’: Philanthropy and the Reimagining of the World
		6.1 The Christian Observer and the Cultivation of a Philanthropic Worldview
		6.2 New Centres, New Fault Lines
		6.3 New Career Paths
		6.4 Philanthropy and History
	Conclusion
Bibliography
	Manuscript and Archival Sources
	Printed Primary Sources
		Statutes of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
		Contemporary Periodicals and Serials
		Reports and Publications of Philanthropic Societies and Institutions
	Published Secondary Works
	Online Resources
	Unpublished Theses
Index
Index of Names