Word across the Water

In Word Across the Water Tom Smith brings the histories of Hawai'i and the Philippines together to argue that US imperial ambitions towards these Pacific archipelagos were deeply intertwined with the work of American Protestant missionaries. As self-styled interpreters of history missionaries produced narratives to stoke interest in their cause locating US imperial interventions and their own evangelistic projects within divinely ordained historical trajectories. As missionaries worked in the sh...See More