Reforming the world the creation of America's moral empire - Tyrrell, Ian R. (Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2010)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Keywords: 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; Electronic books; HISTORY / General