Reforming the world [electronic resource] : the creation of America's moral empire / Ian Tyrrell.
Series: America in the worldPublication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2010.Description: 1 online resource (x, 322 p.) : illISBN:- 9781400836635 (electronic bk.)
- 1400836638 (electronic bk.)
- United States -- Foreign relations
- United States -- Territorial expansion
- United States -- 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
- HISTORY / General
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- E183.7 .T97 2010eb
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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