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Reforming the world : the creation of America's moral empire
- Title
- Reforming the world : the creation of America's moral empire / Ian Tyrrell.
- Author
- Tyrrell, Ian R.
- Publication
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2010.
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- Description
- x, 322 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- America in the world
- Uniform Title
- America in the world.
- Subject
- Imperialism > Moral and ethical aspects > History
- Exceptionalism > United States > History
- Evangelicalism > Political aspects > History. > United States
- Missionaries > United States > History
- Transnationalism > History
- United States > Foreign relations
- United States > Territorial expansion
- United States > Moral conditions
- United States > Foreign relations > Moral and ethical aspects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- IC 10-6418
- ISBN
- 9780691145211 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0691145210 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2009050189
- OCLC
- YBP 2009050189
- Author
- Tyrrell, Ian R.
- Title
- Reforming the world : the creation of America's moral empire / Ian Tyrrell.
- Imprint
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2010.
- Series
- America in the worldAmerica in the world.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- IC 10-6418