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Protestant Diplomacy and the Near East : Missionary Influence on American Policy, 1810-1927.
Title:
Protestant Diplomacy and the Near East : Missionary Influence on American Policy, 1810-1927.
Author:
Grabill, Joseph L.
ISBN:
9780816662678
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (418 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- 1 "Christianize the Nations" -- Enlightenment of the Degenerate -- A New Zion -- The Gutenberg Epoch -- Through a Glass Darkly -- 2 The Eastern Question -- Ledger, Pen, and Flag -- Rattling the Sultan's Windows -- "Oh Weeping Armenia" -- "Freedom Near the Pyramids" -- 3 "Prelude to Point Four" -- A Final Solution -- Nearly Useless Petitions -- Just a Good Beginning -- A National Crusade -- 4 An Unofficial Cabinet -- Wilson and Dodge -- Butting in on State Matters -- Neutrality, War, and Mediation -- Adopting an Infant or Dotard -- 5 Transatlantic Visions and Doings -- Debtors to a Nation -- Isolation Days, Gone Forever -- Misgivings about Peace Aims -- "Big Business of the World" -- 6 The Nestorian Kettle -- A Lever on a Fulcrum -- No One on Earth to Help -- The Persian Commission -- The Future of a Favored Minority -- 7 Missionary Internationalism -- A Test Case -- A Play in Barton's Game -- The Morgenthau Memorandum -- Tortuous Events -- 8 Commissions amid Conflicts -- Caesar and God -- Procrastinating Conferences -- Dark and Light Meat -- More Rhetoric than Output -- 9 The Isolationist Revival -- The Mandate Ship -- A Weird Juxtaposition -- "Put Up or Shut Up" -- The Same as Pontius Pilate -- 10 "Clamorous Armenianism" -- The Eastern Riddle -- Fantasy and Passiveness -- Kemalist Momentum -- The Loosened Grip -- 11 Xenophobic Asian Nationalism -- A Moderately Brave Surrender -- Boon as Well as Bane -- The Destroyed Christian Bloc -- The Mountain of lll Will -- 12 A Remarkable Heritage -- "The Search for Order" -- An Exception to the Trend -- God Is No Respecter of Persons -- Aid to Asian Nationalism -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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