Abbreviations

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I: Networks of Empire
7. Chapter 1. Webs of Communication 13
8. Chapter 2. Missionary Lives, Transnational Networks: The Misses Margaret and Mary Leitch 28
9. Part II: Origins of American Empire
10. Chapter 3. The Missionary Impulse 49
11. Chapter 4. The Matrix of Moral Reform 74
12. Chapter 5. Blood, Souls, and Power: American Humanitarianism Abroad in the 1890s 98
13. Part III: The Challenge of American Colonialism
14. Chapter 6. Reforming Colonialism 123
15. Chapter 7. Opium and the Fashioning of the American Moral Empire 146
16. Chapter 8. Ida Wells and Others: Radical Protest and the Networks of American Expansion 166
17. Part IV: The Era of World War I and the Wilsonian New World Order
18. Chapter 9. States of Faith: Missions and Morality in Government 191
19. Chapter 10. To Make a Dry World: The New World Order of Prohibition 209
20. Conclusion The Judgments of Heaven: Change and Continuity in Moral Reform 227
21. Notes 247
22. Index 309