Tyrrell - Reforming the World: The Creation of Americas Moral Empire

IT IS ALWAYS A PLEASURE to thank those who have helped in the long task of writing a book. I have fortunately been funded by a multiyear Australian Research Council Discovery Grant. This has enabled me to employ a series of research assistants, attend conferences and do research in the United States and Great Britain as well as Australia, and acquire copies of a variety of materials from other libraries around the world. Tina Donaghy, Nadine Kavanagh, and Marie McKenzie in turn proved valuable to the research and to the rechecking of material that I have used. Princeton University Press's editorial team has been very helpful in bringing this manuscript to publication. I especially thank Sara Lerner for her work on the photographs and Jenn Backer for her intelligent copyediting.

I received excellent audience feedback from papers delivered at the International Congress on the Social History of Alcohol and Drugs at Guelph, Ontario, in August 2007; the Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association, Biennial Conference, July 2008; the Australian Historical Association Biennial Conference, Brisbane, July 2002; the International American Studies Association Conference in Lisbon, September 2008; the Making Empire Visible in the Metropole: Comparative Imperial Transformations in America, Australia, England and France conference, Sydney, June 2008; and the Competing Kingdoms: Women, Mission, Nation, and American Empire conference at Oxford University, April 2006. I thank Kittie Sklar and Barbara Reeves-Ellington for the invitation to Oxford; conversations there with Anne Forster, Connie Shemo, R. Bryan Baderman, Jane Hunter, and Jay Sexton were particularly useful. Jay provided a critique of my conference paper, which I much appreciated. A variety of people made helpful comments in the course of presenting several papers during my stay at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Franois Weil made my time there intellectually rewarding and very pleasant. In August 2008 I spoke at the Sydney Feminist History Group on the Misses Leitch and received further excellent commentary, as I did at the School of History and Philosophy seminars in May 2007 and May 2009. I found especially valuable the penetrating discussion at the University of Mannheim in October 2008, where I outlined the broad themes of the book. I especially thank Prof. Madeleine Herren, University of Heidelberg, and Prof. Johannes Paullmann, Mannheim, for organizing that event and for their marvelous hospitality.

I thank the directors and individual librarians at the Yale University Divinity School Library; Kautz Family YMCA Archives, University of Minnesota; Harvard University Libraries; British Library; Library of Congress; National Archives, College Park, Maryland; National Archives, Washington, D.C.; Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan; Friends Historical Library, London; Mitchell Library, Sydney; and Australian National Library, Canberra. The University of New South Wales facilitated interlibrary loans. Support from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences provided important resources via the Temperance and Prohibition Papers. For earlier research used in this book, I also thank the Fawcett Library, London; Lilly Library, Indiana University; Huntington Library, San Marino, California; Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley; and Frances Willard Memorial Library, Evanston, Illinois.

Individuals who have offered advice have been many. I give pride of place to the late Roy Rosenzweig, who, despite an increasingly serious illness, showed considerable interest in probing the theme of the American empire and political lobbying during a broad-ranging conversation with him and Shane White in October 2006 on Pennsylvania Avenue at Capitol Hill. As has become common, I owe inspiration on linking American history to the wider world to Tom Bender, as well as Carl Guarneri. James Gilbert was instructive on Dwight Moody, and Duke University's Bill Chafe and Sydney University's Shane White generously commented on my work at the Making Empire Visible conference.

includes material adapted from Prohibition, American Cultural Expansion, and the New Hegemony in the 1920s: An Interpretation, Histoire Sociale/Social History 27 (November 1994), 413-45. Place names in the non-western world are rendered in this study as those familiar in the period. Thus Madras (not Chennai), Ceylon (not Sri Lanka), and so on.

Diane, Ellen, and Jessica in Sydney know what it means to live with an historian. As they are all writers of one type or another, it helps, but thanks to all of you and to sister Vicki for your sustenance, love, and advice. And to Bindi, remain cute, but go easier on the barking.

Marrickville, NSW, Australia, July 2009