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Reforming the world [electronic resource] : the creation of America's moral empire / Ian Tyrrell.

By: 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.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Reforming the world.DDC classification:
  • 973 22
LOC classification:
  • E183.7 .T97 2010eb
Online resources:
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.
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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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