Browsing Theses - Department of History by Keywords "American Missionaries"
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American foreign missions to the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire: fashioning the model of educated christian womanhood in the East in the second half of the nineteenth century
(Bilkent University, 2018-01)The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) was one of the first establishments to introduce a Western-style educational system to the peoples of the Ottoman Empire. This thesis is an examination of ... -
American women's foreign mission movement : "cooperation of eve with the redeemer" in evangelical missions
(Bilkent University, 2006)This thesis aims to depict American women’s “indispensable” participation in the United States’ foreign mission movement. The emphasis in this thesis is on missionary wives and single missionary women both in mission ... -
Outposts of an Empire : early Turkish migration to Peabody, Massachusetts
(Bilkent University, 2005)This thesis examines early (1890s-1920s) Turkish immigration to Peabody, Massachusetts. It is a case study which argues that the most prominent factor driving early Turkish migration to Peabody was economic. Thus the ...
