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

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

Title remainder

the creation of America's moral empire

Statement of responsibility

Ian Tyrrell

Instantiates

• Reforming the world : the creation of America's moral empire

Publication

• Princeton | Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2010

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

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

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FIEB16817825

Dimensions

25 cm.

Extent

x, 322 p.

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9780691145211

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ill., ports.

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u273946

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• UkOxUb17237173
• (OCoLC)482596354