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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781910003321

Autore

Grabill Joseph L

Titolo

Protestant diplomacy and the Near East : missionary influence on American policy, 1810-1927 / / Joseph L. Grabill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, [1971]

ISBN

0-8166-5775-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 395 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits

Disciplina

327.73/056

Soggetti

Missions - Middle East

Missions, American - Middle East

United States Foreign relations Middle East

Middle East Foreign relations United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-374) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1 "Christianize the Nations"; 2 The Eastern Question; 3 "Prelude to Point Four"; 4 An Unofficial Cabinet; 5 Transatlantic Visions and Doings; 6 The Nestorian Kettle; 7 Missionary Internationalism; 8 Commissions amid Conflicts; 9 The Isolationist Revival; 10 "Clamorous Armenianism"; 11 Xenophobic Asian Nationalism; 12 A Remarkable Heritage; Notes; Essay on Sources; Index

Sommario/riassunto

For understand of the Middle East today, it is essential to know something of the historical background of that region, traditionally known as the Near East. In tracing the influence of American Protestant missionary activities on American foreign policy.