Reforming the World

Tyrrell, Ian

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“…As Ian Tyrrell has argued, religious missions of the nineteenth century transformed by the end of World War I into an export of moral reform which 'harnessed [humanitarianism] to the interests of American foreign policy.' 17 The CRB certainly contributed to the building of this narrative.…”

Section: Saving Belgiummentioning

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An American enterprise? British participation in US food relief programmes (1914–1923)

Proctor

2014

First World War Studies

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Section: Saving Belgiummentioning

confidence: 95%

An American enterprise? British participation in US food relief programmes (1914–1923)

Proctor

2014

First World War Studies

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“…79 Reformers, none the less, remained committed to global outreach in part because they aimed to have influence far and wide, but, in addition, because their international activities increased their impact at home. 80 A defining aspect of British moral reform in the global age was that activists sought, often successfully, to promote their agendas through legislative approaches and state enforcement. Although that trend built on the enhanced expectations for parliamentary action that had developed in the Atlantic age, it was paradoxical because the era was characterised by a liberal ethos and an emphasis on self-help.…”

Section: The Global Phase: Legislating Moral Reformmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reforming Expectations: Parliamentary Pressure and Moral Reform

Moniz¹

2018

Parliamentary History

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‘Reforming Expectations’ argues that English and British moral reformers’ agendas, including their relation to, and expectations of, parliament, were shaped, and increasingly so, by the world beyond England and Britain from the 17th to the early 20th century. Reformers’ efforts have fallen into three distinct eras of reform activity – the European phase, the Atlantic phase, and the global phase – which each had a distinct emphasis. In the European, early‐modern phase, activists participated in European conversations about the moral regulation and care of the poor, but they worked locally. In the Atlantic phase, from the Glorious Revolution to the American revolution, transatlantic ties supplanted European connections and activists aimed to reform morals both locally and at a distance. With the American revolution and the sustained attention it gave to parliament's role in governing the nation, reformers’ expectations about parliament's role in governing moral life expanded. In the global phase, from the end of the French revolutionary wars to the early 20th century, activists sought to have a worldwide impact. British reformers undertook moral improvement projects aimed at peoples throughout Britain's now more heterogeneous empire. Building on the new expectations of the previous era, they looked to parliament and foreign legislatures to achieve those aims. For over three centuries, English and British moral reformers’ approach to parliament was influenced by interactions with foreign colleagues.

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“…39 In 1893, these efforts were replicated for an anti-opium petition to Ceylon's Legislative Council, for which the missionaries found 30,000 Sri Lankan signatories. In 1886, Margaret became vice president of the Ceylon World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), and, with the help of her sister, she gathered 33,000 signatures for a petition to prohibit drugs worldwide.…”

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Petitioning Against the “Opium Evil”: Economic Policy as Humanitarian Intervention in Early Antidrug Rhetoric

Kuperavage

2014

Southern Communication Journal

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Reforming the World

Cited by 214 publications

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An American enterprise? British participation in US food relief programmes (1914–1923)

An American enterprise? British participation in US food relief programmes (1914–1923)

Reforming Expectations: Parliamentary Pressure and Moral Reform

Petitioning Against the “Opium Evil”: Economic Policy as Humanitarian Intervention in Early Antidrug Rhetoric

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