Acknowledgments

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Chapter 1 The “Errand” to Iran: Mission and Place in Transnational History 10
5. Chapter 2 “Into the Commonwealth Stage” The Old Mission of the Evangelical Church 33
6. Chapter 3 “Spiritual Lend Lease” Literacy, Social Work, and the New Mission for Development 64
7. Chapter 4 “Something Other Than Ordinary Education” International Schools in Pahlavi Iran 92
8. Chapter 5 “These Young Persian Friends of Mine” Associationalism in US-Iran Relations 138
9. Chapter 6 The Persian “Boomerang” The Presbyterian Mission in the United States 167
10. Chapter 7 “Build It for the Eye of God” The American Colony, Mission, and Place after 1965 197
11. Conclusion 221
12. Notes 229
13. Bibliography 277
14. Index 315