Citizens or Papists? : the politics of anti-Catholicism in New York, 1685-1821 /

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Based on rare archival sources, this book chronicles anti-Catholic feeling in New York in the pre-Revolutionary and early national periods. Colonial New York, despite its reputation for pluralism and tolerance, was also marked by severe restrictions on religious and political liberty for Catholics.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Duncan, Jason K.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2005.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Hudson Valley heritage series ; no. 3.
Subjects:
Catholic Church > New York (State) > History.
Catholic Church > History.
Église catholique > Histoire.
Catholic Church.
Anti-Catholicism > New York (State) > History.
Christianity and politics > New York (State)
Anticatholicisme > New York (État) > Histoire.
Christianisme et politique > New York (État)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Anti-Catholicism.
Christianity and politics.
New York (State) > Church history.
New York (État) > Histoire religieuse.
New York (State)
Church history
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "The hand of popery in this hellish conspiracy" : the legacy of Anti-Catholicism in Colonial New York
  • "The encouragement popery had met with" : Catholics and religious liberty in Revolutionary New York
  • "No foreign ecclesiastical authority" : Catholics and Republican citizenship
  • "Federalists and tories carrying everything with a high hand" : Catholics and the politics of the 1790s
  • "In all countries such distinctions are odious : in none more so than this" : political equality in the early republic
  • "A middle party?" : Catholics and Republican Nationalism
  • "The great chain of national union" : Catholics and the Republican triumph
  • Conclusion
  • "A most Democratic and Republican class.

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