Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List Of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. A Bible House In The City 7
7. 2. From Civic Humanitarianism To Corporate Benevolence: The Changing Nature Of The Board Of Managers 35
8. 3. Local Particularism And National Interests: Creating The Agency System, 1816-1830 62
9. 4. The Limits Of Consensus In A Capitalist Metropolis: The Problem Of Mariners And "Papists" 89
10. 5. The Limits Of Consensus In A Christian Republic: Jacksonians, Baptists, Translators, And Abolitionists 118
11. 6. "Motives Of Both Duty And Expediency": Entering The Foreign Field, 1831-1844 151
12. 7. Making Agents Accountable: Bureaucratization And The Agency System, 1845-1865 175
13. 8. Race, War, And Sectionalism: Reconstructing The Southern Agencies, 1850-1867 200
14. 9. Bringing System And Order To The Agency: Bible Work In The Levant, 1854-1889 228
15. Epilogue: From "Missionary Basis" To "Business Basis"? Isaac Bliss's Strange Lament 256
16. Index 263