Word across the water American Protestant missionaries, Pacific worlds, and the making of imperial histories / Tom Smith.

Physical mediumillustrations
SeriesThe 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 241-309) and index.
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LCCN 2024000033
ISBN9781501777417 hardcover
ISBN9781501777448 paperback
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