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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tyrrell, Ian R.

Series:

America in the world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transnationalism.

History.

Missionaries.

Evangelicalism--Political aspects.

Evangelicalism.

Exceptionalism.

Imperialism--Moral and ethical aspects.

Imperialism.

International relations.

United States--Foreign relations.

United States.

United States--Territorial expansion.

Territorial expansion.

United States--Moral conditions.

Moral conditions.

United States--Foreign relations--Moral and ethical aspects.

Imperialism--Moral and ethical aspects--History.

Exceptionalism--United States--History.

Evangelicalism--Political aspects--United States--History.

Missionaries--United States--History.

Transnationalism--History.

Physical Description:

x, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2010]

Contents:

pt. 1. Networks of empire

Webs of communication

Missionary lives, transnational networks: the Misses Margaret and Mary Leitch

pt. 2. Origins of American empire

The missionary impulse

The matrix of moral reform

Blood, souls, and power: American humanitarianism abroad in the 1890s

pt. 3. 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

pt. 4. 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780691145211

0691145210

OCLC:

482596354