TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tyrrell,Ian R.
TI  - Reforming the world: the creation of America's moral empire 
T2  - America in the world
AV  - E183.7 .T97 2010eb
U1  - 973 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Princeton, N.J.
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Imperialism
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - History
KW  - Exceptionalism
KW  - United States
KW  - Evangelicalism
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Missionaries
KW  - Transnationalism
KW  - HISTORY / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Territorial expansion
KW  - Moral conditions
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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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ER  -