Competing Kingdoms: Women, Mission, Nation, and the American Protestant Empire, 1812-1960

An introduction by editors Reeves-Ellington, Sklar, and Shemo is followed by fourteen essays and Mary Renda's concluding essay emphasizing how the "language of domesticity" and the race issue underpinned nineteenth- and twentiethcentury American women's missionary endeavors. [...] Rui Kohiyama's study offsetting missionary sources with ample evidence from local sources and Japanese understandings of missionary work is a refreshing voice in this volume.