Susan Thorne

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Susan Thorne teaches modern British and European colonial history at Duke University. Thorne is particularly interested in how ordinary men and women navigate their political and economic circumstances. Industrialization and imperial expansion figure prominently in her work. Congregational Missions and the Making of an Imperial Culture in 19th Century England (Stanford University Press, 1999) explores foreign missionary influences on popular perceptions of empire and race in nineteenth-century England. Thorne has been working for some time now on the social history and cultural representation of Victorian orphans. She is still working on a book manuscript, tentatively titled The Dickensian Affect: Reckonings with Reform in Early Victorian S ...more

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Congregational Missions and...

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Held by the Watchtower: Set...

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