Author: Daniel H Bays

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Published: 2010-03-14

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 0817356401

This collection of 15 essays provides a fully developed account of the domestic significance of foreign missions from the 19th century through the Vietnam War. U.S. and Canadian missions to China, South America, Africa, and the Middle East have, it shows, transformed the identity and purposes of their mother countries in important ways.