Ballots and Bibles : : Ethnic Politics and the Catholic Church in Providence / / Evelyn Savidge Sterne.
By the mid-nineteenth century, Providence, Rhode Island, an early industrial center, became a magnet for Catholic immigrants seeking jobs. The city created as a haven for Protestant dissenters was transformed by the arrival of Italian, Irish, and French-Canadian workers. By 1905, more than half of i...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©2008 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Cushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in Twentieth-Century America
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 29 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE TEXT
- INTRODUCTION
- I. THE LIMITS OF ELECTORAL POLITICS
- II. THE POTENTIAL OF CATHOLIC ACTIVISM
- III. THE FLOWERING OF CATHOLIC POLITICS
- CONCLUSION
- ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE NOTES
- NOTES
- INDEX