Reforming the World : : The Creation of America's Moral Empire /

Reforming the World : : The Creation of America's Moral Empire / / Ian Tyrrell.

Reforming the World offers a sophisticated account of how and why, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American missionaries and moral reformers undertook work abroad at an unprecedented rate and scale. Looking at various organizations such as the Young Men's Christian Associa...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Tyrrell, Ian,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:America in the World ; 4
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 15 halftones.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Networks of Empire
  • Chapter 1. Webs of Communication
  • Chapter 2. Missionary Lives, Transnational Networks: The Misses Margaret and Mary Leitch
  • Part II: Origins of American Empire
  • Chapter 3. The Missionary Impulse
  • Chapter 4. The Matrix of Moral Reform
  • Chapter 5. Blood, Souls, and Power: American Humanitarianism Abroad in the 1890s
  • Part III: The Challenge of American Colonialism
  • Chapter 6. Reforming Colonialism
  • Chapter 7. Opium and the Fashioning of the American Moral Empire
  • Chapter 8. Ida Wells and Others: Radical Protest and the Networks of American Expansion
  • Part IV: The Era of World War I and the Wilsonian New World Order
  • Chapter 9. States of Faith: Missions and Morality in Government
  • Chapter 10. To Make a Dry World: The New World Order of Prohibition
  • Conclusion The Judgments of Heaven: Change and Continuity in Moral Reform
  • Notes
  • Index

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