INDEX

Abel, Clarke 128, 129, 133, 134, 135
abolitionism 3, 9, 43, 46, 59, 61, 63, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 97, 199, 201, 202, 203, 204, 208, 210, 211
Adam, John 42
African Institution 210
African Squadron 67, 68, 69, 70, 74n.50
All Hallows College 112
American Revolution 198, 199
Amherst embassy 128, 130, 133
Anderson, Aeneas 127, 128, 131, 132, 139
Andrews, Charles Freer 51, 52, 54
Angas, George 29, 30
‘Angloworld’ 3
animals 186–91
anti-commercialism/anti-capitalism 49, 50, 56
anti-imperialism/anti-colonialism 39–40, 49, 51, 52, 53, 54, 56, 121, 181
architecture 131, 192, 193, 194
Arnot, Sandford 44, 45
Art Journal, The 107, 108
Auden, W. H. 166
A Wife in the Right (Elizabeth Griffith play) 185, 192
Baillie, Henry 68
banking 61, 81, 88, 90, 91, 156, 157
Barrow, John 128, 135, 136, 137, 138
Beaufort, Emily Anne (1826–87)
(Later Lady Strangford) 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 92
Beijing see Peking
Bengal 10, 37, 41, 43, 45, 47, 96, 101, 102, 103, 105n.22, 118, 119, 120, 121
Bengal Coal Company 47
Bengal Herald 43
Bengal Tenancy Act (1885) 120
Englishman, The (newspaper) 121
High Court 102
see also India
Besant, Annie 49
Bhabha, Homi 186
Book Society 167
botany 133
British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society 68
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) 167
British diplomacy 3, 9, 10, 11, 12, 70, 77–87, 91–2, 127
consulates 78, 79, 90
Eastern Question 78, 80, 81
Levant Consular Service 78
British exceptionalism/civilisational superiority 67, 71, 117, 122, 126, 127, 140, 141, 201–4, 205, 207, 208, 210, 211
British Guiana 9, 51, 60, 62, 64–7, 70
Britishness 109–11, 145–8, 150, 165, 181, 182, 184, 199–209
British world system 1, 2, 4, 146
Broome, F. N. 99, 100
Broun-Ramsay, James (1st Marquess of Dalhousie) (Governor-General, India) 107
Browne, E. G. 52, 53
Buckingham, James Silk 8, 39–40, 42, 43, 44, 45, 50
Buddhism 8, 51, 134
Bulgarian Atrocities 77, 78, 79, 81, 82, 83, 85, 86, 87, 89, 90, 91
Burton, Antoinette 1, 6, 7
Buxton, Thomas Fowell 204, 210
Calcutta, 45, 101, 102, 182, 183
Calcutta High Court 102
Calcutta Journal 44, 45
Cambodia 154
Campbell, Neil (Governor, Sierra Leone) 206
Canning, Stratford (First Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe) 80, 81, 82
Canton 126–35, 137–9, 141
Cantonese 137–40, 153
Canton Register 141
Canton System 126, 127, 129, 130, 131, 132, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142
capitalism 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 155, 156, 157, 160
Carpenter, Edward 49, 50
cartoons 185, 186
caste system 113–15, 118
Celtic periphery 10, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 115, 117, 118, 119, 121, 122, 123
Chaillé-Long, Charles 32, 33, 35
Chartism 45–8
child labour 158
China 126–42, 150, 151
Chinese characteristics 135, 139–41, 153, 154, 155, 156
Chinese refugees 154, 155, 159, 160
Christianity 21–3, 33, 35, 36, 50, 51, 52, 56, 62, 205
Catholicism 108, 111–15
Catholic emancipation 111
Christian Fulfilment Theology 48, 50, 51, 52
Christian minorities (Ottoman Empire) 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88
Protestantism 81, 86, 108, 109, 111,
see also missionaries
civilising mission 8, 14, 37, 198–211
Clavell, James 149, 150, 151, 152
Noble House 150, 151, 152
Tai-Pan 149, 150, 151
cleanliness 184
clothing 17, 21–3, 25, 28, 29, 32, 36, 37, 113, 114 , 131, 148, 183, 184, 185, 186
clubs/societies 4, 6, 8, 46, 68, 88, 121, 147, 148, 156, 157, 199
Cockerell, Samuel Pepys 193
Coke, Mary 186
Colby, Thomas 117
colonial government/administration 44, 45, 46, 47, 60–5, 71, 95–104, 105n.22, 107–9, 112, 115–20, 145–9, 152–4, 156, 157, 158–60, 199, 201, 204, 206, 207, 208, 210
see also East India Company
colonial knowledge/information 108, 111, 112, 117, 127, 128, 129, 132, 133
Colonial Office 60, 61, 63, 66, 67, 97–100, 103
Communism 54, 55, 152, 155
Comintern 54, 55
Indian Communist Party 54–5
Comte, August 48, 49
consumerism 14, 146
Cook, James 21, 22, 23, 25, 27, 32
Coomaraswamy, Ananda 49, 50
corruption 103, 135, 148, 152, 153
Cotton, Henry 40, 48, 49
Cousins, Margaret 54
Craig, David 169, 170
Scottish Literature and the Scottish People, 1680–1830 170
Crimean War 78, 80
Cruikshank, George 34, 35
Curzon, George Nathaniel (First Marquess Curzon of Kedleston) (Viceroy of India) 52
customs laws 180, 181
Darwin, John 1, 2
da Silva, Bernado Peres 45
Davis, John 128, 129, 132, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139
Davis, John Gordon 148, 156, 157
Typhoon 148, 157
The Years of the Hungry Tiger 156
Deccan Riots (1870s) 48
decentring 1, 6, 11, 111, 122
decolonisation 2, 55, 145, 160
democracy 149
de O. Sales, A. 160
Devis, Arthur William 183
Disraeli, Benjamin (Lord Beaconsfield) 77, 80, 90, 91, 92
Domett, Alfred 172
Ranolf and Amohia 172
Downing, Charles Toogood 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140
Dryden, John 19–20
Dublin Industrial Exhibition (1853) 107
East India Company 40–5, 47, 107, 111, 112, 115–17, 127, 128, 133, 140, 141, 181–5, 187–9, 191
East India Juries Act (1825) 44
economic growth 145, 155
Edigner, George 159, 160
education 51, 80, 81, 82, 105n.23, 111, 115, 116, 140, 153, 165, 207
Eliot, T. S. 166, 168, 171
Elliott, Charles 101, 102, 103
Elliott, Elsie 153, 158
Eurasians 44–5, 47, 111
Evans, Richardson 109
Everett, Captain William 87, 88
Eyre, Edward John 71, 98
famine 63, 87–90, 118, 119, 121
Great Famine (Ireland) 62, 63, 117, 118, 119
Indian Famine (1902) 121
Fergusson, William 204, 205
First World War 54, 66, 92
flogging 136
food 191, 192
Four Nations 5, 110
Francis, Philip 41
freedom of the press 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 96
free trade 42, 45, 47, 56, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 145
French Revolution 41, 47, 48
Frere, Bartle 211
Froude, J. A. 97
gambling 136, 156, 157
Gandhi, Mohandas 50, 51, 52, 54, 55
gender 29, 36
femininity 23, 25, 33, 36, 172, 173
masculinity 29, 31, 36, 173
Geological Survey of India (GSI) 115, 116, 117, 118
Great Trigonometrical Survey of India (GTS) 116
Gladstone, William Ewart 77, 78, 81, 82, 89, 90, 147
globalisation 4, 7
Gokhale, Gopal Krishna 52
Gordon, General Charles George 32, 33
Gorrie, Sir John 97, 98, 99, 100, 102, 103
Grantham, Alexander 154
Greene, Jack 95
Grey, Henry (Third Earl Grey) 62, 63, 208
guidebooks 167
habeas corpus 41, 44, 96
Haddon-Cave, C. P. 147
Hall, Basil 128, 133, 138
Hall, Catherine 1, 60
Halliday, Jon 148
Hare, David 194
Harris, Peter 147
Hastings, Marian 180, 194
Hastings, Warren 41, 43, 180, 182, 185, 186, 188, 189, 193, 194
Heffernan, Patrick 109
Hickey, William 127, 131, 180, 181, 182, 183, 193, 194
Hinduism 8, 43, 44, 49, 50, 51, 101, 120, 183, 193, 194
Brahmo Samaj 43
historiography 1–7, 14, 20–1, 36, 39, 59, 60, 95, 96, 110, 111, 123, 126, 127, 146, 160, 161, 165, 176, 181, 184, 186, 198, 199, 200
Hodges, William 183
Hoey, William 108, 109
Home Rule Leagues (Indian) 49
homosexuality 50, 56
Hong Kong 137, 145–60
riots (1967) 147, 149, 154, 160
Hong Kong Shanghai Bank 156, 157
hongs 130
Hornby, William 189, 193
horse racing 157
House of Commons 59, 68, 69, 70, 71, 77, 80, 100, 104, 122, 149
humanism 50, 53, 55, 56
humanitarianism 9, 10, 60, 61, 67, 70, 71, 72, 77, 78, 79, 81–91, 92, 201, 210
Hume, Alan Octavian 8, 39–40, 48, 49
Hume, David 43, 184
Hume, Joseph 42, 43, 46, 48, 59
Hutt, William 68, 69, 70, 71
hybrid identity 182, 186, 201
indentured labour 41, 51, 60, 61, 66, 67, 96, 97
India 2, 8, 10, 11, 13, 39–56, 101–4, 107, 111–16, 118–22, 181, 182–7, 189–95
High Court 102, 103
India House 187
Indian fiction 174–6
Indian National Congress 40, 45, 47, 48, 49, 55
Indianness 13, 183–6, 189–95
Indian Rebellion/Mutiny (1857–59) 47, 60
Indian Civil Service (ICS) 119, 120, 122
Indian Medical Service 109
India Office 101, 102, 103
industry 9, 50, 107, 118, 147, 159
infanticide 136, 137
informal empire 2, 6, 9, 79, 127
Ireland 5, 10, 11, 42–4, 46, 48, 49, 54, 63, 65, 107–23, 169
Irishness 109, 110, 111, 122
Islam 8, 53, 54, 55, 82, 119, 193, 205
Jamaica 32, 59, 60, 62, 65, 199
Jamaica Committee 71, 98
Morant Bay rebellion/rising (1865) 60, 71, 97, 98
Jardine, William 141, 162n.23
Jesuits 129, 136
Jones, William 183
Joseph, Keith 158, 160
Korean War 159
Lady Hughes case (1784) 126
Lagos, 209
laissez-faire 9, 12, 60, 61, 62, 63, 67, 145–9, 152–8, 160
land reform 120
language 111, 112, 113, 120, 139, 175, 201
Larcom, Thomas 117
Layard, Austen Henry 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92
Leavis, F. R. 165, 166, 168, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176
Culture and Environment: The Training of Critical Awareness (with Denys Thompson) 168, 173
Mass Civilisation and Minority Culture 173
Leavis, Q. D. 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 175, 176
Fiction and the Reading Public 167, 168, 174, 175, 176
le Carré, John 147, 148, 154, 157
The Honourable Schoolboy 148, 154, 157
legal system 41, 44, 96, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 126
legitimate commerce 13, 14, 199, 202, 203, 206, 207, 208, 209
Lethbridge, Henry J. 149
Hard Graft in Hong Kong 149
liberal imperialism 39, 56, 80
liberalism 8, 10, 39, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 52, 53, 56
Liberated Africans 199, 205, 206
libertarianism 41
liberty 95, 96, 100, 101, 102, 103, 146, 150, 151, 152
Literary Criterion (journal) 174
literary criticism 165–76
literature 21, 22, 32, 33, 165–76
liturgy 113, 114
Livingstone, Ken 158, 159
London 2, 5, 44, 51, 61, 107, 110, 111, 116, 121,122, 131, 141, 152, 158, 165, 183, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 199, 210
see also metropole
Luquet, Abbé 114, 115
Lynd, Robert S. 168
Culture and Environment (with Helen Lynd) 171
Lytton, Lord 48
Macao 45, 127, 130, 140, 155, 157, 162n.22
Macartney, George (First Earl Macartney) 128
Macartney embassy 128, 131, 136, 137
MacDonnell, Anthony 119, 120, 121
Madras 41, 50, 101, 112, 113, 114, 115, 188, 189, 190
Ma’i (Omai) 25, 26
Malcolm, Sir John 41
Manchus 7, 45, 126, 130, 132, 133, 137, 138, 139, 151
see also Qing dynasty
Markby, William 100, 105n.17
Martin, Robert Montgomery 42, 43
material culture 3, 13, 21, 22, 25, 37, 107, 108, 129, 131 ,135, 180–6, 191, 193, 194, 195, 198–211
Matheson, Jardine 150, 157, 162n.23
Mazzini, Giuseppe 49
McCormick, E. H. 170, 171, 172, 173, 174
McMinn, Charles 121, 122
Medhurst, Walter Henry 128, 132, 135, 140, 141, 142
medicine 133, 134, 150
Meerut Conspiracy Case (1929) 54–5
Meinertzhagen, Richard 32, 33
metropole 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8 ,10, 12, 13, 14, 25, 42–4, 61, 99, 110, 111, 116, 121, 122, 123, 131, 141, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 152, 158, 159, 160, 161, 181, 183, 185, 186–91, 194, 199–211
see also London and House of Commons
middle-class 22, 43, 104n.9, 118, 204, 205, 209
Mill, James 42, 56
‘minority culture’ 166, 167, 173
missionaries 8, 11, 17, 22, 23, 32, 37, 51, 52, 78, 79, 81, 84, 86, 87, 88, 92, 108–15, 128, 129, 132, 133, 136, 140, 141, 199, 209, 210, 211
Church Missionary Society (CMS) 199, 210
Livingstone, David 71, 211
London Missionary Society 23, 210
monarchy 148, 189, 188, 189, 190, 200
money 46, 54, 85, 88, 89, 90, 91, 148, 149, 151, 152, 156, 157, 204, 206
Montaigne 19, 21
Moriarty, Patrick E. 114
Morrison, Robert 128, 140, 141
Munro, Hector 190, 193
mutual constitutiveness 3, 5, 6, 8, 14
nabobism 13, 42, 147, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 188, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195
‘naked native’ 8, 18, 37
nakedness 8, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37
Narasimhaiah, C. D. 174, 175
nationalism 40, 49, 51, 52, 53, 55, 109, 121, 122, 174
national literature 169, 170, 171, 172
nativism 181, 182, 191
networks 1–14, 48, 78, 79, 83, 87, 88, 91, 92n.8, 108, 110, 111, 112, 115, 116, 120, 121, 122, 123, 126, 127, 128, 129, 145, 146, 165, 182, 198, 200, 204, 210
New Zealand 12, 165, 166, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 198, 211
New Zealand literature 165, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174
Noble, Margaret (alias Sister Nivedita) 49
‘noble savage’ 8, 18, 19, 20, 21, 25, 37
Nolan, Patrick, 120, 121
O’Connor, Daniel 112, 113, 114, 115
O’Donnell, Charles J. 119, 120, 121, 122
Oldham, Thomas 115, 116, 117, 118, 119
Ommanney, F. D. 153 opium 45, 51, 132, 134, 135, 150
opium trade 45, 51, 132, 135, 150
opium use 134, 135, 159
Opium War (1839–42) 11, 43, 141, 142
Ordinance Survey of Ireland (OSI) 116, 117, 118
Orientalism 8, 31, 40, 48, 128
Ottoman Bank 81, 88, 90, 91
paintings 8, 22, 23, 25, 28, 29, 129, 180, 181, 182, 183, 188, 189
Pal, Bipin Chandra 49
Palmerston (Third Viscount Palmerston) (Henry John Temple) 67, 68, 69, 70, 75n.54, 80, 209
Pearson, George 133
Peking 128, 129, 133, 136
periphery 1, 5, 10, 110, 111, 201
Petty-Fitzmaurice, Henry (Fifth Marquess of Lansdowne) 102, 103
Philby, Henry St John 53, 54
Pine, B. C. C. 205, 207, 208
plantations/planters 47, 49, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104n.13 Poedua 23, 24, 25
poetry 22, 55, 148, 166, 169, 170, 171, 172, 174, 192
policing 47, 97, 98, 103, 108, 119, 148, 149, 153
political representation 10, 40, 44, 48, 97, 104n.9, 149, 204, 206, 207
Pollock, Frederick 100, 105n.17
Pope-Hennessy, James 154, 163n.36
population 128, 129, 130, 132, 137, 205
porcelain 129, 135
Porter, Robin 155, 158
positive non-interventionism 145, 146, 147, 152, 156, 159
poverty 46, 64, 65, 98, 107, 117, 118, 119, 120, 155, 156, 160, 175
press 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 68, 77, 96, 102, 103, 105n.23, 121, 156, 157, 169
see also freedom of the press
Prinsep, Henry 102, 105n.26
property rights 100, 151, 207, 208
protectionism 40, 56, 59, 61, 62, 63, 97
Qing dynasty 7, 45, 126, 130, 132, 133, 137, 138, 139, 151
see also Manchus
Queen’s College in Belfast, Cork and Galway 115, 116, 119
Rabushka, Alvin 147, 149
race/racism/racial prejudice 39, 42, 60, 61, 63, 64, 65, 66, 69, 70–1, 82, 87, 90, 98, 100, 109, 110, 139, 140, 154, 185, 192, 198, 201
radicalism 8, 9, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45. 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 59, 68, 98, 99, 100, 103, 122, 128, 148, 153
Raffles, Stamford 41, 210
Rai, Lala Lajpat 52
religion 2, 23, 43, 45, 48, 49, 53, 54, 56, 113, 184, 205, 209
Repton, Humphrey 193
Reynolds, Joshua 25, 26
Robinson, William 97, 98–9, 104n.10
Roy, Manabendra Nath 55
Roy, Rammohan 41, 43, 44, 45
Royal Jockey Club, The 148, 157
Royal Navy 53, 67, 68, 69, 70
Royal Society of Arts 107
Rudra, Sushil K. 51, 52
Russell, Lord John 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 75n.58
Russell Government 59, 61, 62, 63, 67, 68
Russo-Turkish War (1877–78) 10, 77, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 89, 90–1, 92
Treaty of Berlin (1878) 83, 90–1, 92, 93n.26
Sargeson, Frank 173
Schumpeter, Joseph 146, 161n.6
science 2, 3, 4, 11, 17, 21, 107, 108, 110, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 129, 133, 134, 140, 187
-see also colonial knowledge/information
Scientific Marxism 50, 55
Scotland 5, 43, 44, 108, 110, 113, 115, 152, 158, 169, 170, 176, 181, 187, 194
Scottish literature 169, 170, 176
Scott, Walter 169
Scrutiny (journal) 12, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176
see also F. R. Leavis
Second World War 2, 54, 55, 64, 150
Sen, Keshub Chunder (also Keshub Chandra Sen) 43
settlers 2, 3, 4, 6, 10, 14, 45, 47, 78, 96, 101, 146, 155, 165, 166, 171, 172, 173, 183, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 204, 205, 206, 207, 209, 210, 211
Seven Years’ War (1756–63) 4, 108
Sezincote House 193 short fiction 167, 173
Siegfried, André 171
La démocratie en Nouvelle–Zélande 171
Sierra Leone 199–211
Freetown 199, 204, 205, 207, 208, 211
Sierra Leone Company 203
Sikhism 51
Singapore 41, 145, 150, 155, 158, 210, 211
slavery 9, 13, 22, 31, 35, 43, 59, 60–71, 96, 97, 118, 150, 154, 159, 199–211
East African Slave Trade Committee 211
pro-slavery 201, 202
slave trade 35, 61, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 199, 202, 203, 208, 210, 211
see also abolitionism
Smith, Charles 183, 184
Smith, E. M. 174
History of New Zealand Fiction 174
Smythe, Percy Ellen Algernon Frederick William Sydney (Viscount Strangford) 83, 88
social criticism 168, 171
socialism 8, 39, 40, 48, 49, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 171
romantic socialism 48
social welfare 12, 114, 145, 146, 148, 149, 154, 156, 159, 160, 161
Spratt, Phillip 8, 39–40, 54, 55
steam 116, 140
Stephen, Leslie 168, 169
English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century 168, 169
stock market 157
strikes 66, 97, 147
St Stephen’s College (India) 51, 52
Stubbs, George 188, 189
Sturt, George 168, 173
Change in the Village 168
The Wheelwright’s Shop 168
Subramanyam, Ka Naa 175, 176
sugar 9, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 70, 96, 97
sugar cultivation 62, 63, 69, 96, 97
sugar duties 9, 59, 60, 61, 66, 67, 68,
Sugar Duties Act 59, 60, 61, 66, 67, 68
sugar monoculture 9, 63, 65, 67
sweated labour 159
Szczepanik, Edward 154, 155
Tagore, Dwarkanath 43, 44, 47
Tamil literature 175, 176
tea 49, 102, 137, 138, 150, 187
technology 107, 116, 118, 128, 140
Thatcherism 146, 152, 158, 162n.23
theosophy 48, 49, 56
Thompson, Andrew 1, 4
Thompson, Denys 168, 173
see also F. R. Leavis
Thompson, George 46, 47
Topley, Marjorie 153, 155
tourism 182, 186
Tower of London 186, 187, 188, 189, 190
Townshend, George 18, 20
trade 9, 11, 12, 40, 41, 42, 43, 45, 46, 47, 51, 56, 59–71, 126, 129, 130, 132, 135, 136, 137, 139, 141, 142, 145, 150, 151, 152, 159, 162n.23, 186–7, 199, 201, 202, 203, 204, 207, 208, 210, 211
British goods 203, 204
raw materials 203, 204, 208
see also Canton System; East India Company; Matheson, Jardine
Trinidad 9, 10, 60, 62, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 70, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 104n.3, 154
Trinity College, Dublin 115, 116
University of Cambridge 165, 170
Viswanathan, Gauri 165
Wales 5, 110, 115
Ward, Stuart 1
Waring, John Scott 180
Webber, John 23, 24
Wedderburn, William 40, 48
Wellesley, Governor-General 41
Wells, H. G. 171, 178n.38
The Work, Wealth, and Happiness of Mankind 171
West, Benjamin 25, 28, 38n.14
West, Richard 158, 159
Whampoa 130, 131
white rule 96, 97, 98
white settlement 2, 6, 51, 60, 166, 198, 201
Wingfield, Edward 99, 104n.11
Wodehouse, John (First Earl of Kimberley) 101–2, 103, 105n.25
working hours 9, 62, 64, 154, 155, 156, 158
zamindars (Indian landlords) 119–20, 121
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Framing the moron

The social construction of feeble-mindedness in the American eugenic era

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Many people are shocked upon discovering that tens of thousands of innocent persons in the United States were involuntarily sterilized, forced into institutions, and otherwise maltreated within the course of the eugenic movement (1900–30). Such social control efforts are easier to understand when we consider the variety of dehumanizing and fear-inducing rhetoric propagandists invoke to frame their potential victims. This book details the major rhetorical themes employed within the context of eugenic propaganda, drawing largely on original sources of the period. Early in the twentieth century the term “moron” was developed to describe the primary targets of eugenic control. This book demonstrates how the image of moronity in the United States was shaped by eugenicists.

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This book reviews the burial history of central North Yorkshire. In exploring the social history of burial in rural areas, the book aims to encompass some of the principles underpinning 'l'histoire des mentalites'. The book considers the issue of churchyard closure. Churchyard closure generally signalled that burial space was made available elsewhere, and in most cases before 1894 this meant that the churchyard itself had been extended. The book reviews the incidence of churchyard extension, which was commonplace during the nineteenth century. The Burial Acts introduced legislation that permitted vestries to establish burial boards, which could raise loans repayable through the rates to fund the laying out of new cemeteries. In central North Riding, a total of eighteen burial boards were in operation before 1894, and the book reviews in detail the operation of the ten largest boards in that group. The Burial Acts maintained and even strengthened the hold of the Church of England on burial space, by substantially increasing the amount of consecrated land under its control. The book also addresses the contention that the new legislative context for burial in the twentieth century might then introduce the opportunity for a substantial centralisation of burial provision. Finally, the book reviews the pattern of burial provision in 2007 compared with 1850, and concludes that there is evidence of both continuity and change.
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The debate on the polity of the church was at the centre of the religious debates in the British Atlantic world during the middle decades of the seventeenth-century. From the Covenanter revolution in Scotland, to the congregationalism of the New England colonies, to the protracted debates of the Westminster assembly, and the abolition of the centuries-old episcopalian structure of the Church of England, the issue of the polity of the church was intertwined with the political questions of the period. This book collects together essays focusing on the conjunction of church polity and politics in the middle years of the seventeenth century. A number of chapters in the volume address the questions and conflicts arising out of the period’s reopening and rethinking of the Reformation settlement of church and state. In addition, the interplay between the localities and the various Westminster administrations of the era are explored in a number of chapters. Beyond these discussions, chapters in the volume explore the deeper ecclesiological thinking of the period, examining the nature of the polity of the church and its relationship to society at large. The book also covers the issues of liberty of conscience and how religious suffering contributed to a sense of what the true church was in the midst of revolutionary political upheaval. This volume asserts the fundamental connection between church polity and politics in the revolutions that affected the seventeenth-century British Atlantic world.