Reforming the world
Tyrrell, Ian R.
Reforming the world the creation of America's moral empire / [electronic resource] : Ian Tyrrell. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2010. - 1 online resource (x, 322 p.) : ill. - America in the world . - America in the world. .
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.
9781400836635 (electronic bk.) 1400836638 (electronic bk.)
Imperialism--Moral and ethical aspects--History.
Exceptionalism--History.--United States
Evangelicalism--Political aspects--History.--United States
Missionaries--History.--United States
Transnationalism--History.
HISTORY / General
United States--Foreign relations.
United States--Territorial expansion.
United States--Moral conditions.
United States--Foreign relations--Moral and ethical aspects.
Electronic books.
E183.7 / .T97 2010eb
973
Reforming the world the creation of America's moral empire / [electronic resource] : Ian Tyrrell. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2010. - 1 online resource (x, 322 p.) : ill. - America in the world . - America in the world. .
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.
9781400836635 (electronic bk.) 1400836638 (electronic bk.)
Imperialism--Moral and ethical aspects--History.
Exceptionalism--History.--United States
Evangelicalism--Political aspects--History.--United States
Missionaries--History.--United States
Transnationalism--History.
HISTORY / General
United States--Foreign relations.
United States--Territorial expansion.
United States--Moral conditions.
United States--Foreign relations--Moral and ethical aspects.
Electronic books.
E183.7 / .T97 2010eb
973
