Publications of Susan Thorne

Books

  1. Thorne, S, Congregational Missions and the Making of an imperial Culture in 19th Century England (1999), Stanford University Press

Journal Articles

  1. Thorne, S, Steven S. Maughan. Mighty England Do Good: Culture, Faith, Empire, and World in the Foreign Missions of the Church of England, 1850–1915. Studies in the History of Christian Missions. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 2014. Pp. 527. $45.00 (paper)., Journal of British Studies, vol. 55 no. 1 (January, 2016), pp. 209-210, Cambridge University Press (CUP)
  2. Thorne, S, Capitalism and Slavery Compensation, small axe, vol. 16 no. 1 37 (March, 2012), pp. 154-167, Duke University Press (Book Discussion: Nicholas Draper, The Price of Emancipation: Slave-Ownership, Compensation, and British Society at the End of Slavery.)
  3. Thorne, S, Feminism and empire: women activists in imperial Britain, 1790–1865 - By Clare Midgley. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. Pp. x + 206. Hardback £70.00, ISBN 978-0-415-25014-6; paperback £19.99, ISBN 978-0-415-25015-3., Journal of Global History, vol. 6 no. 3 (November, 2011), pp. 541-542, Cambridge University Press (CUP), ISSN 1740-0228
  4. Thorne, S, Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History. By Frederick Cooper, The European Legacy, vol. 12 no. 2 (April, 2007), pp. 270-270, Taylor and Francis
  5. Thorne, S, Imperial Pieties, History Workshop Journal, vol. 63 no. 1 (Spring, 2007), pp. 319-328, Oxford University Press, ISSN 1363-3554
  6. Thorne, S, Southern Discomfort, in The Poetics of the Sacred and the Politics of Knowledge: Six Geographies of Encounter, ed. Teresa Berger, edited by Berger, T, Worlds and Knowledges Otherwise, vol. 2 (April, 2006), Worlds and Knowledges Otherwise, Vol. 1, Dossier 2 (The Poetics of the Sacred and the Politics of Knowledge: Six Geographies of Encounter.)
  7. Thorne, S, Imperial fault lines: Christianity and colonial power in India, 1818-1940, VICTORIAN STUDIES, vol. 47 no. 2 (2005), pp. 295-297, ISSN 0042-5222
  8. Thorne, S, Review Essay: Catherine Hall, Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830-1867, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, vol. 6 no. 1 (2005)
  9. Thorne, S, Review of The Changing Shape of English Nonconformity, 1825-1925 by Dale A. Johnson, The American Historical Review, vol. 106 no. 2 (April, 2001), pp. 645-646, JSTOR, ISSN 0002-8762
  10. Thorne, S, Fungusamongus; Or, An Imperial Idea without Enemies, Journal of British Studies, vol. 33 (January, 1994), pp. 110-117, ISSN 0021-9371
  11. Thorne, S, Fungusamongus; Or, An Imperial Idea without Enemies - Popular Imperialism and the Military: 1850–1950. Edited by John M. MacKenzie. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1992. Pp. ix + 228. $69.95. - Cheap Bibles: Nineteenth-Century Publishing and the British and Foreign Bible Society. By Leslie Howsam. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. xviii + 245. $54.95. - European Women and the Second British Empire. By Margaret Strobel. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1991. Pp. xiii + 108. $27.50. - Western Women and Imperialism: Complicity and Resistance. Edited by Nupor Chaudhuri and Margaret Strobel. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1992. Pp. 288. $39.95., Journal of British Studies, vol. 33 no. 1 (January, 1994), pp. 110-117, Cambridge University Press (CUP), ISSN 0021-9371
  12. Mayfield, D; Thorne, S; Arbor, A, Reply to ’The Poverty of Protest’ and ’The Imaginary Discontents’, Social History, vol. 18 no. 2 (May, 1993), pp. 219-233, ISSN 0307-1022
  13. THORNE, S, CLASS ANALYSIS, POPULAR POLITICS AND THE LINGUISTIC TURN IN 19TH-CENTURY ENGLISH HISTORY, edited by Bond, GC; Rooney, JW, CONSORTIUM ON REVOLUTIONARY EUROPE 1750-1850, PROCEEDINGS, 1992 (January, 1993), pp. 52-61, CONSORTIUM REVOLUTIONARY EUROPE, ISSN 0093-2574
  14. THORNE, S, THE IDEAL OF THE SELF-GOVERNING CHURCH - A STUDY IN VICTORIAN MISSIONARY STRATEGY - WILLIAMS,CP, VICTORIAN STUDIES, vol. 36 no. 2 (1993), pp. 234-236, ISSN 0042-5222
  15. Mayfield, D; Thorne, S, Social History and Its Discontents: Gareth Stedman Jones and the Politics of Language, Social History, vol. 17 (May, 1992), pp. 165-188, ISSN 0307-1022
  16. Thorne, S, Review of Conversion and Social Equality in India. The London Missionary Society in South Travancore in the 19th Century by Dick Kooiman, Social History, vol. 16 (May, 1991), pp. 271-272, ISSN 0307-1022
  17. Thorne, S, Review of Missionary Lives. Papua, 1874-1914 by Diane Langmore, Social History, vol. 15 (May, 1990), pp. 280-281, ISSN 0307-1022

Book Chapters

  1. Thorne, S, Religion and empire at home, in At Home with the Empire: Metropolitan Culture and the Imperial World (January, 2006), pp. 143-165, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521854061
  2. S. Thorne, Religion and Empire, in At Home With the Empire: Metropolitan Culture and the Imperial World, edited by Catherine Hall and Sonya Rose (2006), Cambridge University Press
  3. Thorne, S, Missionary Imperial Feminism, in Gendered Missions: Women and Men in Missionary Discourse and Practice, edited by Huber, MT; Lutkehaus, NC (1999), University of Michigan Press
  4. Thorne, S, ’The Conversion of Englishmen and the Conversion of the World Inseparable’: Missionary Imperialism and the Language of Class, 1750-1850, in Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World, edited by Cooper, F; Stoler, AL (1997), University of California Press

Book Reviews

  1. S. Thorne, “Steven S. Maughan. Mighty England Do Good: Culture, Faith, Empire, and World in the Foreign Missions of the Church of England, 1850-1915 (Grand Rapids, MI / Cambridge UK: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2014)”, Journal of British Studies (2015) (forthcoming 2016?.)
  2. S. Thorne, Frederick Cooper, Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History, The European Legacy, vol. 12 no. 2 (March, 2007), pp. 270-271