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Reforming the world, the creation of America's moral empire, Ian Tyrrell

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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non fiction

Reforming the world

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Ian Tyrrell

the creation of America's moral empire

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 180s -- 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