- Description
- 1 online resource (x, 322 p.) : ill.
- Series Statement
- America in the world
- Uniform Title
- Reforming the world (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Reforming the world (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2009050189
- OCLC
- ssj0000441621
- Author
Tyrrell, Ian R.
- Title
Reforming the world [electronic resource] : the creation of America's moral empire / Ian Tyrrell.
- Imprint
Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2010.
- Series
America in the world
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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