id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt xp68kd2003z Sarah Miglio 'Civilizing the World': Progressive Religion and Politics from Chicago to the Middle East, 1890-1925 2012 .txt text/plain 328 13 16 I follow the pathways of practical Christian reform from Chicago to Turkey, where American missionaries and philanthropists provided disaster relief for Armenians as they suffered considerable violence from the 1890s-1920s. Just as Chicago practical Christians labored to civilize their immigrant neighbors and encourage their adoption of Christian and American habits, Americans worked to Christianize and modernize Armenians and the Middle East. cache/xp68kd2003z.txt txt/xp68kd2003z.txt