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During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American Protestant missionaries attempted to export their religious beliefs and cultural ideals to the Ottoman Empire. Drawing on a broad range of sources Barbara Reeves-Ellington tracks the transnational history of this little-known episode of American cultural expansion. She shows how issues of gender and race influenced the missionaries' efforts as well as the complex responses of Ottoma...

In this era of Twitter and text-messaging, which calls into question previously accepted notions of literacy, today's students need a new and more pragmatic approach to developing writing and research skills. While a number of guides to historical research and writing and several historical methodology texts have appeared in the past several years, no single text accomplishes what Doing History: An Introduction to the Historian's Craft does. T...

Collection makes case for the significance of religion to U.S. imperial culture and for womens' agency in the U.S. Protestant missions movement from the early 19th to the mid-20th centuries.

Collection makes case for the significance of religion to U.S. imperial culture and for womens' agency in the U.S. Protestant missions movement from the early 19th to the mid-20th centuries.