Reforming the world : the creation of America's moral empire /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tyrrell, Ian R. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2010.
Colección:America in the world.
Temas:
Imperialism > Moral and ethical aspects > History.
Exceptionalism > United States > History.
Evangelicalism > Political aspects > United States > History.
Missionaries > United States > History.
Transnationalism > History.
Impérialisme > Aspect moral > Histoire.
Exceptionnalisme > États-Unis > Histoire.
Évangélisme > Aspect politique > États-Unis > Histoire.
Missionnaires > États-Unis > Histoire.
Transnationalisme > Histoire.
HISTORY > General.
RELIGION > Christian Ministry > Missions.
Diplomatic relations
Evangelicalism > Political aspects
Exceptionalism
Imperialism > Moral and ethical aspects
Missionaries
Moral conditions
Territorial expansion
Transnationalism
United States > Foreign relations.
United States > Territorial expansion.
United States > Moral conditions.
United States > Foreign relations > Moral and ethical aspects.
États-Unis > Relations extérieures.
États-Unis > Expansion territoriale.
États-Unis > Relations extérieures > Aspect moral.
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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