02797nam a2200541Ka 4500 ocn697175260 OCoLC 20200709055323.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 110117s2010 njua ob 001 0 eng d N$T N$T 9780691145211 0691145210 9781400836635 (electronic bk.) 1400836638 (electronic bk.) (OCoLC)697175260 350102 (N$T) n-us--- E183.7 .T97 2010eb HIS 036000 bisacsh 973 22 N$TA Tyrrell, Ian R. Reforming the world [electronic resource] : the creation of America's moral empire / Ian Tyrrell. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2010. 1 online resource (x, 322 p.) : ill. 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. Description based on print version record. 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 bisacsh Print version: Tyrrell, Ian R. Reforming the world. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2010 9780691145211 (DLC) 2009050189 (OCoLC)482596354 America in the world. NetLibrary http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=350102 cpp1723AUTO 02 N$T 50126 50126