Reforming the world : the creation of America's moral empire /
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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| Formato: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2010.
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| Series: | America in the world.
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| Acceso en liña: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=350102 |
Table of Contents:
- Networks of empire. Webs of communication
- Missionary lives, transnational networks : the Misses Margaret and Mary Leitch
- Origins of American empire. The missionary impulse
- The matrix of moral reform
- Blood, souls, and power : American humanitarianism abroad in the 1890s
- The challenge of American colonialism. Reforming colonialism
- Opium and the fashioning of the American moral empire
- Ida Wells and others: radical protest and the networks of American expansion
- The era of World War I and the Wilsonian new world order. States of faith : missions and morality in government
- To make a dry world: the new world order of prohibition
- Conclusion : The judgments of heaven: change and continuity in moral reform.