Print version: Smith, Tom, 1990- Word Across the Water : American Protestant Missionaries, Pacific Worlds, and the Making of Imperial Histories. First edition. Ithaca :Cornell University Press, c2024 377 pages United States in the world. ISBN 9781501777448
Includes bibliographical references and index
History, religion, and the American imagination of the Pacific -- Venerated fathers: "missionaries," mission history, and native Hawaiian sovereignty -- From the beginning of the world: the contested terrain of history in Hawai’i -- A past that is often noble: memory, "unwritten literature," and the consolidation of an American Hawai’i -- A sudden turn of history: providence, crisis, and U.S. empire in the Philippines -- A dark and troubled past: missionaries and historicism in the Philippines -- A chosen people: Filipino nationalism, Protestant missionaries, and the long Philippine past -- The purposes and ambivalences of missionary knowledge production.