Search Results for: The American Mission

One of NPR's Best Books of 2014! After witnessing a devastating incident in Darfur, Alex Baines is stripped of his security clearance and relegated to a desk jo

The Great American Mission traces how America's global modernization efforts during the twentieth century were a means to remake the world in its own image. Dav

Explains the accomplishments of US leadership and the pitfalls the nation encountered due to the tensions between realpolitik and liberal ideology. Through the

The subject of missions-formal efforts at religious conversion of native peoples of the Americas by colonizing powers-is one that renders the modern student a b

The fascinating story of American efforts to liberate and remake Russia since the 1880s.