John Saillant

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The Foreign Missionary Enterprise at Home

Explorations in North American Cultural History

University of Alabama Press

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.

  • Copyright year: 2010
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The Part and the Whole in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and Art

Bucknell University Press

This collection maps the significance of fragmentary forms in early American literature and culture from the mid-seventeenth to mid-nineteenth century. The Part and the Whole recovers the distinct aesthetics of the incomplete, retelling the story of American culture by reorienting our collective understanding toward texts and objects that have often been critically ignored.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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