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Protestants abroad : how missionaries tried to change the world but changed America / David A. Hollinger.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hollinger, David A., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Missions, American--History.
- Missions, American.
- Protestant churches--Missions--History.
- Protestant churches.
- Protestant churches--Missions.
- History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 390 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2017]
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Introduction: The Protestant Boomerang 1
- Chapter 2 To Make the Crooked Straight: Henry Luce, Pearl Buck, and John Hersey 24
- Chapter 3 To Save the Plan: Can Missions Be Revised? 59
- Chapter 4 The Protestant International and the Political Mobilization of Churches 94
- Chapter 5 Anticolonialism vs. Zionism 117
- Chapter 6 Who Is My Brother? The White Peril and the Japanese 139
- Chapter 7 Telling the Truth about the Two Chinas 163
- Chapter 8 Creating America's Thailand in Diplomacy and Fiction 187
- Chapter 9 Against Orientalism: Universities and Modern Asia 214
- Chapter 10 Toward the Peace Corps: Post-Missionary Service Abroad 252
- Chapter 11 Of One Blood: Joining the Civil Rights Struggle at Home 266
- Chapter 12 Conclusion: Cain's Answer 288.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780691158433
- 0691158436
- OCLC:
- 974676434
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