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In 1810, American evangelicals formed the first American foreign mission organization, and began the work of deciding where their missionaries ought to go. Motivated by a global vision of the biblical call to preach to “all the world,” American missionaries were constrained in where they could actually go by political, economic, and cultural factors. This paper explores the ways that American missionaries selected and prioritized particular locations over others as a way of thinking about how Americans mapped the world in the era of the early republic. Central to this process was the construction of a “hierarchy of heathenism” that allowed missionaries to combine practical concerns with assumptions about culture and race to determine where they might be most effective.
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189509
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The first decade of the twentieth century was a busy one in U.S. foreign relations. In the Philippines, Americans attempted to stamp out resistance and enforce colonial governance; in Washington, D.C., they planned major reforms of the consular system; across the globe, they searched for new markets and embraced new forms of international aid. And at home, Americans debated the value of Christian foreign missions. For nearly a century, missionaries had extended the United States’ global reach. Missionary activities had intersected with all aspects of U.S. foreign relations: the many shapes of U.S. imperialism, diplomacy, economics, and humanitarianism. As the new century dawned, the former U.S. Minister to Siam explained, “the American papers have been full of discussions about the missionaries and their work.”1 And those discussions were not, for the most part, positive.
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