Paper 21 reading list - Faculty of History

New World
L. Bethell, ed. Colonial Brazil (Cambridge UP, 1997). Chapters 5, 6, & 7.
SB Schwartz Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society
K. Maxwell Naked Tropics: Essays on Empire and Other Rogues (Routledge, 2004),
B. Diffie, A history of colonial Brazil, 1500-1792 (Florida, 1987). Chapters 1-6.
A.J.R Russell-Wood, Society and government in colonial Brazil, 1500-1822 (Aldershot, 1992).
H. B. Johnson, ‘The leasing of Brazil, 1502-1515: a problem resolved?’ The Americas, 55, n.3 (Jan 1999): 481-487.
C. Boxer, Dutch in Brazil, 1624-54 (Hamden, 1973).
J. Lang, Portuguese Brazil: the king’s plantation (New York, 1979). Chapters 1, 2 and 3
C. Boxer, Race relations in the Portuguese colonial empire (Oxford, 1963). Chapter 3.
A.J.R Russell-Wood, The black man in slavery and freedom in colonial Brazil
3 T H E E X P A N S I O N O F C H R I S T I A N I T Y
Why did certain non-European peoples (and not others) ‘convert’ to Christianity?
a) before 1800? or
b) after 1800?
(3a)
A Pagden The Fall of Natural Man: The America Indian and the Origins of Comparative Ethnology
(1982)
N Farris Maya Society under Colonial Rule, 286–355
PJ Marshall (ed.) Oxford History of the British Empire (OHBE) II, 1999 chapter 6 by Schlenther
A.N. Porter Religion versus Empire? British Protestant Missions and Overseas Expansion 1700-1914
S. Gruzinski, The Mestizo Mind (2004)
K Mills and A. Grafton, eds. Conversion: Old Worlds and New (2003)
S Bayly Saints, Goddesses and Kings: Muslims and Christians in South Indian Society (1989),
chapters 9–10
CR Boxer Japan’s Christian Century
AH Rowbotham Missionary and Mandarin
Jonathan D Spence The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci
J Gernet China and the Christian Impact (1985)
GB Sansom Western World and Japan, 72–86, 115–33 and 152–64
N Tarling (ed.) Cambridge History of Southeast Asia vol. 1, chapter 9
V Raphael Contracting Colonialism: translation and conversion in Tagalog society under early Spanish
rule (1988)
A Strathern, ‘Transcendentalist intransigence. Why rulers rejected monotheism in southeast Asia and
beyond.’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 49, April 2007.
E Kenton Black Gown and Redskins 1610–1791
HW Bowden American Indians and Christian Missions
A Hastings The Church in Africa 1450–1950 (1994)
JK Thornton ‘An African Catholic Church in the Kongo’, JAH 25 (1984), 146–67
(3b) post-1800
The state and mission
AN Porter Religion versus empire? British Protestant missionaries and overseas expansion, 1700-1914
(2004)
Culture and mission
Anna Johnston Missionary writing and empire, 1800-1860 (2003)
Susan Thorne Congregational missions and the making of an imperial culture (1999)
J & J Comaroff Of revelation and revolution (1991)
A Porter ‘‘Cultural imperialism’ and British expansion in the long nineteenth century’ in JICH 25
(1997), pp.367-91; a response to the tradition of works above
Ideologies and mission
Brian Stanley ed. Christian missions and the Enlightenment (2001)
Geoffrey Oddie Imagined Hinduism: British protestant missionary constructions of Hinduism, 1793-1900
(2006)
Sujit Sivasundaram Nature and the godly empire: science and evangelical mission in the Pacific (2005)
Nola Cooke ‘Early nineteenth century Vietnamese Catholics’, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 35, 2004.