Frontmatter

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Conventions vii
4. Introduction The Rise and Growth of a Global “Moral Empire”: The YMCA and YWCA during the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 1
5. Part I. The Origins of the YMCA’s and YWCA’s Social Work in Asia: The Social Gospel and Local Interpretations
6. 1 Vectors of Practicality: Social Gospel, the North American YMCA in Asia, and the Global Context 39
7. 2 Proximity, Progress, and the YMCA in Early Twentieth-Century Asia, 1902–1912 61
8. 3 The Japanese YMCA, Christian Masculinities, and Japan’s Colonization of Korea, 1905–1919 80
9. 4 The YMCA’s Message of Public Health and Masculinity, 1910s–1920s: Transnational Impacts of the Physical Education Programs in China, the Philippines, and Japan 99
10. 5 Mediating Modern Motherhood: The Shanghai YWCA’s “Women’s Work for Women,” 1908–1949 119
11. Part II. The YMCA and Internationalism after World War I: The Attempts to Integrate Eastern Europe into a Global Civil Society
12. 6 Returning “Genuine Faith” to Modernity: The Academic YMCA in Interwar Czechoslovakia 147
13. 7 For the “Youth of a Great Nation”: The American YMCA and Nation Building in Greater Romania in the Interwar Period 169
14. Part III. The YMCA and American Society: Inculcating White Protestant Middle-Class Values
15. 8 The Idiom of Modernity and the Construction of the Native Speaker: YMCA Language Instruction at Home and Abroad 193
16. 9 Building a “Modern” “American” “Indian”: The Legacy of Y-Indian Guides, 1926–1995 211
17. Part IV. The Aftermath of Fascism and World War II: The YMCA’s Social Work in Cold War Africa
18. 10 Education for Leadership: The YMCA in Late Imperial Ethiopia, 1940s–1970s 237
19. Contributors 259
20. Index 263