The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic

by John Putnam Demos

Book Overview

Award-winning historian John Demos tells the astonishing and moving story of a unique missionary project, which probes the very roots of American identity.

Near the start of the nineteenth century, as the United States looked outward to the wider world, a group of eminent Protestant ministers devised a grand scheme for gathering the rest of mankind into the redemptive fold of Christianity and civiization. Its core element was a special school...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679781129
• ISBN13: 9780679781127
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 8.0"