Looks at how the Anglican Church coped with mass migration from Britain in the first half of the nineteenth century

Joseph Hardwick is Lecturer in British History at Northumbria University

Introduction: the Church of England, migration and the British world
1. The recruitment of colonial clergy, c.1790-1850
2. The making of the colonial laity
3. The Colonial Bishoprics' Fund and the contest of colonial Church reform
4. British support for overseas expansion
5. Imperial ecclesiastical networks
6. The Church, associations and ethnic and loyalist identities
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index