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

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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tyrrell, Ian R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2010]
Series:America in the world.
Subjects:
Imperialism > Moral and ethical aspects > History.
Exceptionalism > United States > History.
Evangelicalism > Political aspects > United States > History.
Missionaries > United States > History.
Transnationalism > History.
United States > Foreign relations.
United States > Territorial expansion.
United States > Moral conditions.
United States > Foreign relations > Moral and ethical aspects.
Table of 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.