Protestants Abroad: How Missionaries Tried to Change the World But Changed America

by David A Hollinger and David A. Hollinger

Book Overview

They sought to transform the world, and ended up transforming twentieth-century America

Between the 1890s and the Vietnam era, many thousands of American Protestant missionaries were sent to live throughout the non-European world. They expected to change the people they encountered, but those foreign people ended up transforming the missionaries. Their experience abroad made many of these missionaries and their children critical of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691158436
• ISBN13: 9780691158433
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"