Christian Imperialism : : Converting the World in the Early American Republic / / Emily Conroy-Krutz.
In 1812, eight American missionaries, under the direction of the recently formed American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, sailed from the United States to South Asia. The plans that motivated their voyage were ano less grand than taking part in the Protestant conversion of the entire wo...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The United States in the World
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 5 halftones, 3 maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: An American Missionary in London
- Introduction: Christian Imperialism and American Foreign Missions
- 1. Hierarchies of Heathenism
- 2. Missions on the British Model
- 3. Mission Schools and the Meaning of Conversion
- 4. Missions as Settler Colonies
- 5. American Politics and the Cherokee Mission
- 6. Missionaries and Colonies
- 7. A “Christian Colony” in Singapore
- Conclusion: Missions and American Imperialism
- Notes
- Index