In Word Across the Water , Tom Smith brings the histories of Hawai’i and the Philippines together to argue that US imperial ambitions towards these Pacific archipelagos were deeply intertwined with the work of American Protestant missionaries. As self-styled interpreters of history, missionaries produced narratives to stoke interest in their cause, locating US imperial interventions and their own evangelistic projects within divinely ordained historical trajectories.
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قائمة المحتويات
Introduction
Hawai’i
Venerated Father
From the Beginning of the World
A Past That is Often Noble
The Philippines
A Sudden Turn of History
A Dark and Troubled Past
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عن المؤلف
Tom Smith is the Keasbey Research Fellow in American Studies at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge. His work has previously been published in Diplomatic History, Hist...