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Tounghoo Women
Ellen nee Huntly Bullard Mason was an American Baptist missionary. She was the wife of Francis Mason (1799-1874), an American missionary and naturalist who in 1830 was sent by the American Baptist Missionary Union to labor among the Karens in Burma. Ellen helped to inspire the founding of the Woman's Union Missionary Society. Her works on the subject include: A Talk With the Ganges; or, An Epithalamium on the First Hindu Widow-Marriage (1860), Tounghoo Women (1860), Civilizing Mountain Men; or, Sketches of Mission Work Among the Karens (1862), Great Expectations Realized; or, Civilizing Mountain Men (1862), A Song of the Famine, etc (1874), Dr. and Mrs. Mason's Land Leases in Toungoo, etc (with Francis Mason) (1874), The Last Days of the Rev. F. Mason, etc (1874), The Mountain Karen Colony in Toungoo, Burma (1877) and The Toungoo God-Language Conspiracy (1878).
Tounghoo Women
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Women's Biographical Review
Biographies of 200 women associated with Livingston County, New York, from all walks of life and from the late 18th century to the 21st century.
States and Nations, Power and Civility
Civility in national and international politics is under siege. In this volume, twelve distinguished sociologists and historians from North America, Europe, and China reflect on the nature and preservation of civility in and between nation states and empires in a set of geographically and historically wide-ranging chapters. Civility protects individual self-determination and expression, promotes productive economic activity and wealth, and is central to political stability and peace within and across political communities. Yet power, always concentrated and endemic in nation states and imperial settings, poses great risks to civility. Guided by the perspective of John A. Hall, who has done more to identify and investigate the intricate relationships between states, nations, the power they hold, and civility than any other contemporary social scientist, States and Nations, Power and Civility offers a set of crisp, in-depth investigations regarding the specific mechanisms of civility and how it may be protected.
A Looking-glass for Ladies
Lisa Joy Pruitt offers a new look at women's involvement in the mission movement, with a welcome focus on the often overlooked antebellum era. Most scholars have argued that the emergence of women as a dominant force in American Protestant missions in the late nineteenth-century was an outgrowth of nascent feminist activism in the various denominations. This new contribution suggests that the feminization of the later mission movement actually stemmed in large part from images of the "degraded Oriental woman" that popular evangelical literature had been circulating since the 1790s, and that the increasing focus on and involvement of women was supported by male denominational leaders as an im...
