Missionary Diplomacy: Religion and Nineteenth-Century American Foreign Relations

by Emily Conroy-Krutz

Missionary Diplomacy illuminates the crucial place of religion in nineteenth-century American diplomacy. From the 1810s through the 1920s, Protestant missionaries positioned themselves as key experts in the development of American relations in Asia, Africa, the Pacific, and the Middle East. Missionaries served as consuls, translators, and occasional trouble-makers who forced the State Department to take actions it otherwise...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501773984
• ISBN13: 9781501773983
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"