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Competing Kingdoms: Women, Mission, Nation, and the American Protestant Empire, 1812–1960

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Description for Competing Kingdoms: Women, Mission, Nation, and the American Protestant Empire, 1812–1960 Paperback. A collection exploring how American women missionaries spread U.S. cultural imperialism along with Protestant Christianity from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth, and how their work was received. Editor(s): Reeves-Ellington, Barbara; Sklar, Kathryn Kish; Shemo, Connie Anne. Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions. Num Pages: 432 pages, 32 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTQ; HRCX7; JFSJ1; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 28. Weight in Grams: 630.
Competing Kingdoms rethinks the importance of women and religion within U.S. imperial culture from the early nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth. In an era when the United States was emerging as a world power to challenge the hegemony of European imperial powers, American women missionaries strove to create a new Kingdom of God. They did much to shape a Protestant empire based on American values and institutions. This book examines American women’s activism in a broad transnational context. It offers a complex array of engagements with their efforts to provide rich intercultural histories about the global expansion of American culture ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Series
American Encounters/Global Interactions
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822346500
SKU
V9780822346500
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About Bar Reeves-Ellington
Barbara Reeves-Ellington is Associate Professor of History at Siena College in Loudonville, New York. Kathryn Kish Sklar is Distinguished Professor of History at the State University of New York, Binghamton. Connie A. Shemo is Assistant Professor of History at the State University of New York, Plattsburgh.

Reviews for Competing Kingdoms: Women, Mission, Nation, and the American Protestant Empire, 1812–1960
“In Competing Kingdoms, Barbara Reeves-Ellington, Kathryn Kish Sklar, and Connie A. Shemo bring together a group of emerging and established historians in an innovative project of bringing insights from American mission women’s history into the framework of American cultural imperialism. . . . This collection offers fertile directions for scholars concerned with American imperialism and more generally with the thorny ... Read more

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