Reforming the World: The Creation of America's Moral Empire

by Ian Tyrrell and Ian Tyrrell

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691162018
• ISBN13: 9780691162010
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"