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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ian R Tyrrell |
| ISBN: | 9780691145211 0691145210 |
| OCLC Number: | 482596354 |
| Description: | x, 322 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| 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 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. |
| Series Title: | America in the world. |
| Responsibility: | Ian Tyrrell. |
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