1. 1. Daniel Wilson,A Defense of the Church Missionary Society Against the Objections of the Reverend Josiah Thomas,M.A. Archdeacon of Bath(London: G. Wilson, 1818), 37.
2. 2. Andrew Porter,Religion Versus Empire? British Protestant Missionaries and Overseas Expansion, 1700-1914(Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004), chapters 2-3.
3. An imperial dilemma: The propagation of Christianity in early colonial India∗
4. 4. Susan Thorne,Congregational Missions and the Making of an Imperial Culture in Nineteenth Century England(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999); Kathleen Wilson,The Island Race: Englishness, Empire and Gender in the Eighteenth Century(New York: Routledge, 2003); Linda Colley, Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837(New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1992).
5. Empire and authority in the later eighteenth century∗