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Domestic frontiers : gender, reform, and American interventions in the Ottoman Balkans and the Near East /

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American Protestant missionaries attempted to export their religious beliefs and cultural ideals to the Ottoman Empire. Seeking to attract Orthodox Christians and even Muslims to their faith, they promoted the paradigm of the “Christian home” as t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Reeves-Ellington, Barbara, 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2013]
Colección:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : The Home as the Focus of Women's Civilizing Mission
  • Missionary Families and the Contested Concept of Home
  • Education, Conversion, and Bulgarian Orthodox Nationalism
  • The Mission Press and Bulgarian Domestic Reform
  • Unconventional Couples : Gender, Race, and Power in Mission Politics
  • The Constantinople Home
  • Conclusion.