MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01989nam a22003498a 4500
001 2009050189
003 DLC
005 20091210185031.0
008 091130s2010 nju b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2009050189
020 $a9780691145211 (hardcover : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
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050 00 $aE183.7$b.T97 2010
082 00 $a973$222
100 1 $aTyrrell, Ian R.
245 10 $aReforming the world :$bthe creation of America's moral empire /$cIan Tyrrell.
260 $aPrinceton :$bPrinceton University Press,$cc2010.
263 $a1009
300 $ap. cm.
490 0 $aAmerica in the world
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $apt. 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.
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations.
651 0 $aUnited States$xTerritorial expansion.
651 0 $aUnited States$xMoral conditions.
651 0 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$xMoral and ethical aspects.
650 0 $aImperialism$xMoral and ethical aspects$xHistory.
650 0 $aExceptionalism$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aEvangelicalism$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aMissionaries$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aTransnationalism$xHistory.