Transatlantic Methodists
"Transatlantic Methodists is an important study, the most comprehensive of its kind. Webb draws upon an impressive array of material from both sides of the Atlantic - personal papers, magazines, correspondence, minutes, journals, pamphlets, and published works - and handles it with skill and sophistication." Gordon Heath, McMaster Divinity College, McMaster University "Transatlantic Methodists steps across the abyss that separates pre-Confederation and post-Confederation historians, presenting an opportunity to assess the nineteenth century more holistically. It will appeal strongly to those with an interest in British "Todd Webb's superbly researched analysis in Transatlantic Methodists adds a great deal to our knowledge. Webb looks at well-established themes in Methodist historiography differently [from earlier works], since he is alive to the trans-Atlantic world tha
Methodists in nineteenth-century Ontario and Quebec, like all British subjects, existed as satellites of an influential empire. Transatlantic Methodists uncovers how the Methodist ministry and laity in these colonies, whether they were British, American, or native-born, came to define themselves as transplanted Britons and Wesleyans, in response to their changing, often contentious relationship with the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Britain. Les mer
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Methodists on both sides of the Atlantic shaped - and were shaped by - the larger British world in which they lived. Drawing on insights from new research in British, Atlantic, and imperial history, Transatlantic Methodists is a comprehensive study of how the nineteenth-century British world operated and of Methodism's place within it.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 260
- ISBN
- 9780773542044
- Utgivelsesår
- 2013
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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"Transatlantic Methodists is an important study, the most comprehensive of its kind. Webb draws upon an impressive array of material from both sides of the Atlantic - personal papers, magazines, correspondence, minutes, journals, pamphlets, and published works - and handles it with skill and sophistication." Gordon Heath, McMaster Divinity College, McMaster University "Transatlantic Methodists steps across the abyss that separates pre-Confederation and post-Confederation historians, presenting an opportunity to assess the nineteenth century more holistically. It will appeal strongly to those with an interest in British "Todd Webb's superbly researched analysis in Transatlantic Methodists adds a great deal to our knowledge. Webb looks at well-established themes in Methodist historiography differently [from earlier works], since he is alive to the trans-Atlantic world tha