Word across the water American Protestant missionaries, Pacific worlds, and the making of imperial histories / Tom Smith.
| Author/creator | Smith, Tom, 1990 |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2024. |
| Description | ix, 325 pages illustrations 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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| Physical medium | illustrations |
| Series | The United States in the world |
| Contents | History, religion, and the American imagination of the Pacific -- "Venerated fathers": "missionaries," mission history, and native Hawaiian sovereignty -- "From the beginning of the world": the contested terrain of history in Hawai'i -- "A past that is often noble": memory, "unwritten literature," and the consolidation of an American Hawai'i -- "A sudden turn of history": providence, crisis, and U.S. empire in the Philippines -- "A dark and troubled past": missionaries and historicism in the Philippines -- "A chosen people": Filipino nationalism, Protestant missionaries, and the long Philippine past -- The purposes and ambivalences of missionary knowledge production. |
| Abstract | "A comparative history of how American missionaries engaged with and interpreted the culture and society of Hawaii and the Philippines in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries"- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-309) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024000033 |
| ISBN | 9781501777417 hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781501777448 paperback |
| ISBN | epub |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |