RT Book
T1 Missionary Diplomacy: Religion and Nineteenth-Century American Foreign Relations
A1 Conroy-Krutz, Emily
LA English
PP Ithaca, NY
PB Cornell University Press
YR 2024
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1885504438
AB Missionary Diplomacy illuminates the crucial place of religion in nineteenth-century American diplomacy. From the 1810s through the 1920s, Protestant missionaries positioned themselves as key experts in the development of American relations in Asia, Africa, the Pacific, and the Middle East. Missionaries served as consuls, translators, and occasional trouble-makers who forced the State Department to take actions it otherwise would have avoided. Yet as decades passed, more Americans began to question the propriety of missionaries' power. Were missionaries serving the interests of American diplomacy? Or were they creating unnecessary problems? As Emily Conroy-Krutz demonstrates, they were doing both. Across the century, missionaries forced the government to articulate new conceptions of the rights of US citizens abroad and of the role of the US as an engine of humanitarianism and religious freedom. By the time the US entered the first world war, missionary diplomacy had for nearly a century created the conditions for some Americans to embrace a vision of their country as an internationally engaged world power. Missionary Diplomacy exposes the longstanding influence of evangelical missions on the shape of American foreign relations
AB "Missionary Diplomacy traces the connections between the Protestant foreign mission movement and the US State Department over the nineteenth century, with particular attention paid to the development of new ideas about citizenship, religious freedom, and humanitarianism."--
OP 354
CN BR115.I7
SN 9781501773990
K1 Missionaries : Political activity : History : 19th century
K1 Christianity and international relations : United States : History : 19th century
K1 Protestantism : Influence
K1 HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
K1 United States : Foreign relations
K1 American Christianity, religious missions, US foreign policy, state department, evangelicalism, citizens abroad, Protestant missionaries, humanitarianism history
DO 10.1515/9781501773990