The American Mission

Author : Matthew Palmer
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101626313

Get Book

The American Mission by Matthew Palmer Pdf

“There's the mission the public knows, and the mission we'll never see. Matthew Palmer knows both, which is what makes The American Mission crackle with complexity and authenticity. What a debut.” —Brad Meltzer, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Fifth Assassin Global headlines come to life as intrigue and international politics collide in the Congo in this electrifying debut thriller from Matthew Palmer. After a devastating experience in Darfur strips Alex Baines, former rising star of the State Department, of his security clearances, he is faced with two choices: spend the rest of his career in visa-stamping limbo or move to the private sector. On the verge of resigning, he receives a call from his old mentor with an incredible opportunity to start over, restoring both his security clearances and his reputation. The job isn’t quite what Alex imagined it to be when he finds a shady U.S.-based mining company everywhere he turns. As violence in the political climate escalates, Alex struggles to balance the best interests of the United States with the fate of the Congo and its people. His loyalties are put to the test as he races to determine the right course of action.

Author : David Ekbladh
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400833740

Get Book

The Great American Mission by David Ekbladh Pdf

The Great American Mission traces how America's global modernization efforts during the twentieth century were a means to remake the world in its own image. David Ekbladh shows that the emerging concept of modernization combined existing development ideas from the Depression. He describes how ambitious New Deal programs like the Tennessee Valley Authority became symbols of American liberalism's ability to marshal the social sciences, state planning, civil society, and technology to produce extensive social and economic change. For proponents, it became a valuable weapon to check the influence of menacing ideologies such as Fascism and Communism. Modernization took on profound geopolitical importance as the United States grappled with these threats. After World War II, modernization remained a means to contain the growing influence of the Soviet Union. Ekbladh demonstrates how U.S.-led nation-building efforts in global hot spots, enlisting an array of nongovernmental groups and international organizations, were a basic part of American strategy in the Cold War. However, a close connection to the Vietnam War and the upheavals of the 1960s would discredit modernization. The end of the Cold War further obscured modernization's mission, but many of its assumptions regained prominence after September 11 as the United States moved to contain new threats. Using new sources and perspectives, The Great American Mission offers new and challenging interpretations of America's ideological motivations and humanitarian responsibilities abroad.

Author : David S. Foglesong
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521855907

Get Book

The American Mission and the 'Evil Empire' by David S. Foglesong Pdf

The fascinating story of American efforts to liberate and remake Russia since the 1880s.

Author : Erick Langer,Robert Howard Jackson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803229119

Get Book

The New Latin American Mission History by Erick Langer,Robert Howard Jackson Pdf

The subject of missions-formal efforts at religious conversion of native peoples of the Americas by colonizing powers-is one that renders the modern student a bit uncomfortable. Where the mission enterprise was actuated by true belief it strikes the modern sensibility as fanaticism; where it sprang from territorial or economic motives it seems the rankest sort of hypocrisy. That both elements-greed and real faith-were usually present at the same time is bewildering. In this book seven scholars attempt to create a "new" mission history that deals honestly with the actions and philosophic motivations of the missionaries, both as individuals and organizations and as agents of secular powers, and with the experiences and reactions of the indigenous peoples, including their strategies of accommodation, co-optation, and resistance. The new mission historians examine cases from throughout the hemisphere-from the Andes to northern Mexico to California-in an effort to find patterns in the contact between the European missionaries and the various societies they encountered. Erick Langer is associate professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of Economic Change and Rural Resistance in Southern Bolivia, 1880-1930 and editor, with Zulema Bass Werner de Ruiz, of Historia de Tarija: Corpus Documental. Robert H. Jackson is the author of Indian Population Decline: The Missions of Northwestern New Spain, 1687-1840 and Regional Markets and the Agrarian Transformation in Bolivia Cochabamba, 1539-1960. He is an assistant professor in the Department of History and Geography at Texas Southern University.

Author : Paul L. Armerding
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0802826830

Get Book

Doctors for the Kingdom by Paul L. Armerding Pdf

Foreword by Ravi K. Zacharias "Doctors for the Kingdom tells the amazing yet little-known story of the medical mission of the Reformed Church in America in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. By piecing together archival records, first-person accounts from the past century, and more than 100 photographs and maps, Dr. Paul Armerding -- head of the American Mission Hospital in Bahrain -- chronicles the history and leaders of this extraordinary medical mission. At once educational and inspiring, "Doctors for the Kingdom offers a portrait of Christian-Muslim relations that stands in stark contrast to the picture presented by much of today's media.

Author : Michael Mandelbaum
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780190469474

Get Book

Mission Failure by Michael Mandelbaum Pdf

Mission Failure argues that, in the past 25 years, the U.S. military has turned to missions that are largely humanitarian and socio-political - and that this ideologically-driven foreign policy generally leads to failure.

Author : Walter Kirn
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781400031016

Get Book

Mission to America by Walter Kirn Pdf

Mason LaVerle is a young man on a mission–a mission to save his people’s way of life. Mason was raised in a tiny, isolated Montanan sect, the church of the Aboriginal Fulfilled Apostles. But the Apostles face a dwindling membership, so Mason is sent on an outreach operation to bring back converts–specifically brides. As he discovers shopping malls, fast food, and faster women, the forces of faith and the forces of America collide, leading Mason to the brink of missionary madness.

Author : Peggy E. Newell
Publisher : William Carey Library Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0878086323

Get Book

North American Mission Handbook by Peggy E. Newell Pdf

Missio Nexus engages people who serve within the Great Commission with ideas, events, and resources which propel the gospel around the world. Keep connected and informed on Great Commission issues through podcasts, webinars, author interviews, book summaries and reviews, and our entire online media library. Book jacket.

Author : Zbigniew Brzezinski
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786739837

Get Book

The Choice by Zbigniew Brzezinski Pdf

The foreign policy expert offers an assessment of recent American foreign policy, arguing for a more sophisticated posture in the world that positions America as a supporter of reform and justice in the world.

Author : Paul Borthwick
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830866052

Get Book

Western Christians in Global Mission by Paul Borthwick Pdf

Christianity Today Book Award of Merit Winner Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year The world has changed. A century ago, Christianity was still primarily centered in North America and Europe. By the dawn of the twenty-first century, Christianity had become a truly global faith, with Christians in Asia, Africa and Latin America outpacing those in the rest of the world. There are now more Christians in China than in all of Europe, more Pentecostals in Brazil than in the United States, and more Anglicans in Kenya than in Great Britain, Canada and the United States combined. Countries that were once destinations for western missionaries are now sending their own missionaries to North America. Given these changes, some think the day of the Western missionary is over. Some are wary that American mission efforts may perpetuate an imperialistic colonialism. Some say that global outreach is best left to indigenous leaders. Others simply feel that resources should be focused on the home front. Is there an ongoing role for the North American church in global mission? Missions specialist Paul Borthwick brings an urgent report on how the Western church can best continue in global mission. He provides a current analysis of the state of the world and how Majority World leaders perceive North American Christians' place. Borthwick offers concrete advice for how Western Christians can be involved without being paternalistic or creating dependency. Using their human and material resources with wise and strategic stewardship, North Americans can join forces with the Majority World in new, interdependent ways to answer God?s call to global involvement. In this critical age, the global body of Christ needs one another more than ever. Discover how the Western church can contribute to a new era of mission marked by mutuality, reciprocity and humility.

Author : Frederick Merk,Lois Bannister Merk
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0674548051

Get Book

Manifest Destiny and Mission in American History by Frederick Merk,Lois Bannister Merk Pdf

Before this book first appeared in 1963, most historians wrote as if the continental expansion of the United States were inevitable. "What is most impressive," Henry Steele Commager and Richard Morris declared in 1956, "is the ease, the simplicity, and seeming inevitability of the whole process." The notion of inevitability, however, is perhaps only a secular variation on the theme of the expansionist editor John L. O'Sullivan, who in 1845 coined one of the most famous phrases in American history when he wrote of "our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions." Frederick Merk rejected inevitability in favor of a more contingent interpretation of American expansionism in the 1840s. As his student Henry May later recalled, Merk "loved to get the facts straight." --From the Foreword by John Mack Faragher

Author : Thomas W. Zeiler
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 084202686X

Get Book

Dean Rusk by Thomas W. Zeiler Pdf

Explains the accomplishments of US leadership and the pitfalls the nation encountered due to the tensions between realpolitik and liberal ideology. Through the career of Rusk, the author reflects on the uses and abuses of predominant power in diplomacy, and interprets events and issues.

Author : Matthew Palmer,Pro Vice Chancellor and Dean of Law Matthew Palmer
Publisher : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04
Category : Government contractors
ISBN : 9780425281017

Get Book

Secrets of State by Matthew Palmer,Pro Vice Chancellor and Dean of Law Matthew Palmer Pdf

An NPR Best Book of the Year From a veteran insider with over twenty years' experience in the U.S. Foreign Service comes a taut, insightful thriller of global intrigue and behind-the-scenes international politics. Sam Trainor's career of overseas work coupled with a penchant for being outspoken has left him on the outside of the competitive Washington establishment. Formerly the top South Asia expert in the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, Trainor has moved to the private sector, working as an analyst for the consulting firm Argus Systems. But Sam soon discovers that for all their similarities, the government and their hired contractors have vastly different motives. As he struggles to adjust to a more corporate, profit-driven version of the work that had been his life, he stumbles across an intelligence anomaly--the transcript of a phone conversation about the fastest ways to upend the delicate political balance keeping India and Pakistan from all-out war. Yet Sam knows that conversation can't have occurred--because he is having an affair with one of the alleged participants. As he digs into the source of this misinformation, he realizes that more is at stake than just bad intel. Someone is deliberately twisting the intelligence to stoke the simmering conflict between India and Pakistan, nuclear-armed rivals that have already fought multiple wars. And Sam's new employer could be up to its neck in it. From the Hardcover edition.

Author : Carlos F. Cardoza-Orlandi
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781426763281

Get Book

Mission by Carlos F. Cardoza-Orlandi Pdf

"Mission" has become, for many North American Christians, an ambiguous and often uncomfortable term. To many it brings to mind a past in which western culture was identified with the gospel in missionary practice and programs. Distressed with this history and uncertain about how to overcome it, many prefer to ignore the New Testament mandate that the church must be in mission if it is to be the church. Others swing the other way, declaring that everything the church does is mission, depriving the idea of mission of its power to define those specific actions of God which proclaim the gospel and build God's kingdom. "The church exists by missions, just as fire exists by burning." With these words of Emil Brunner, the author reminds us that to be the church is to be in mission. After describing the various "captivities of mission" which plague North American Christianity, the author argues for a robust and engaged practice of mission, beginning in congregations and extending to the broader community.

Author : Bombay Mission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1833
Category : Missions
ISBN : BL:A0021489827

Get Book

A Brief View of the American Mission in the Bombay Presidency, for the Year 1832 by Bombay Mission Pdf