Word Across the Water: American Protestant Missionaries, Pacific Worlds, and the Making of Imperial Histories - Hardcover
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Word Across the Water: American Protestant Missionaries, Pacific Worlds, and the Making of Imperial Histories
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...
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, Historical Journal, and American Nineteenth Century History.
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