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, and explores the methods and networks used by reformers to fashion a global and nonterritorial empire. He follows the transnational American...
Reforming the World offers a sophisticated account of how and why, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American missi...
In the beginning, there was the river - before the beach, before the drain, before the dredging, before the dams, before numerous other actions to alter the stream. River Dreams reveals the complex history of the Cooks River in southeasternSydney-a river renowned as Australia's most altered and polluted. While nineteenth century developers called it `improvement', the sugar mill, tanneries and factories that lined the banks of the Cooks River had drastic consequences for the health of the river. Local Aboriginal people became fringe dwellers, and over time the river became severely...
In the beginning, there was the river - before the beach, before the drain, before the dredging, before the dams, before numerous other actions to alt...
