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

Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2010 ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (x, 322 pages) : illustrations Series America in the world America in the world. Contents Networks of empire. Webs of communication -- Missionary lives, transnational networks : the Misses Margaret and Mary Leitch -- Origins of American empire. The missionary impulse -- The matrix of moral reform -- Blood, souls, and power : American humanitarianism abroad in the 1890s -- 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 -- 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 Summary Reforming the World offers a sophisticated account of how and why, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American missionaries and moral reformers undertook work abroad at an unprecedented rate and scale. Looking at various organizations such as the Young Men's Christian Association and the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, Ian Tyrrell describes the influence that the export of American values had back home, and explores the methods and networks used by reformers to fashion a global and nonterritorial empire. He follows the transnational American response to internal pressures, the European colonies, and dynamic changes in global society. Examining the cultural context of American expansionism from the 1870s to the 1920s, Tyrrell provides a new interpretation of Christian and evangelical missionary work, and he addresses America's use of "soft power." He describes evangelical reform's influence on American colonial and diplomatic policy, emphasizes the limits of that impact, and documents the often idiosyncratic personal histories, aspirations, and cultural heritage of moral reformers such as Margaret and Mary Leitch, Louis Klopsch, Clara Barton, and Ida Wells. The book illustrates that moral reform influenced the United States as much as it did the colonial and quasi-colonial peoples Americans came in contact with, and shaped the architecture of American dealings with the larger world of empires through to the era of Woodrow Wilson. Investigating the wide-reaching and diverse influence of evangelical reform movements, Reforming the World establishes how transnational organizing played a vital role in America's political and economic expansion Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-308) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Imperialism -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History Exceptionalism -- United States -- History Evangelicalism -- Political aspects -- United States -- History Missionaries -- United States -- History Transnationalism -- History HISTORY -- General. RELIGION -- Christian Ministry -- Missions. Diplomatic relations Evangelicalism -- Political aspects Exceptionalism Imperialism -- Moral and ethical aspects Missionaries Moral conditions Territorial expansion Transnationalism SUBJECT United States -- Foreign relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140058 United States -- Territorial expansion. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140559 United States -- Moral conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140383 United States -- Foreign relations -- Moral and ethical aspects Subject United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781400836635 1400836638 9781282639553 1282639552 9786612639555 6612639555

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