Maura Jane Farrelly

Anti-Catholicism in America, 1620-1860

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Farrelly uses America's early history of anti-Catholicism to reveal contemporary American understandings of freedom, government, God, the individual, and the community.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 523g
• ISBN-13: 9781107164505
• ISBN-10: 1107164508
• Artikelnr.: 48502963

Autorenporträt

Maura Jane Farrelly is Associate Professor American Studies at Brandeis University, Massachusetts.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; 1. 'It hath been found inconsistent with the safety and welfare of
this Protestant Kingdom.': anti-Catholicism in Old England and New; 2.
'This Province is God be thanked very peaceable and quiet.':
anti-Catholicism and colonial Catholics in the seventeenth century; 3. 'The
common Word then was: No King, No Popery.': anti-Catholicism and the
American revolution; 4. 'The Catholic religion is modified by the spirit of
the time in America.': anti-Catholicism and the new republic; 5. 'Those now
pouring in upon us...are wholly of another kind in morals and intellect.':
anti-Catholicism in the age of immigration; 6. 'The benumbing and
paralyzing influence of Romanism is such, as to disqualify a person for the
relish and enjoyment of liberty.': anti-Catholicism and American politics;
Epilogue.