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R. Scott Appleby (Ed.) - Catholics in the American Century: Recasting Narratives of U.S. History - 9780801451409 - V9780801451409
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Catholics in the American Century: Recasting Narratives of U.S. History

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Description for Catholics in the American Century: Recasting Narratives of U.S. History Hardback. Editor(s): Appleby, R. Scott; Cummings, Kathleen Sprows. Series: Cushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in Twentieth-Century America. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCC7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 457.

Over the course of the twentieth century, Catholics, who make up a quarter of the population of the United States, made significant contributions to American culture, politics, and society. They built powerful political machines in Chicago, Boston, and New York; led influential labor unions; created the largest private school system in the nation; and established a vast network of hospitals, orphanages, and charitable organizations. Yet in both scholarly and popular works of history, the distinctive presence and agency of Catholics as Catholics is almost entirely absent. In this book, R. Scott Appleby and Kathleen Sprows Cummings bring together American historians ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Cushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in Twentieth-Century America
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801451409
SKU
V9780801451409
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About R. Scott Appleby (Ed.)
R. Scott Appleby is Professor of History and the John M. Regan Jr. Director of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion, Violence, and Reconciliation and "Church and Age Unite!": The Modernist Impulse in American Catholicism. Kathleen Sprows Cummings is Director of the ... Read more

Reviews for Catholics in the American Century: Recasting Narratives of U.S. History
Catholics in the American Century, the most recent volume to appear in the Cushwa twentieth-century series, addresses the problem of Catholic omission head-on. Five of its six essays are by prominent American historians who seek to reimagine their particular areas of expertise once the Catholic presence is taken seriously..Suffice it to say that every historian with an interest in American ... Read more

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