Cover; Catholicism and the Shaping of Nineteenth-Century America; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Editor's Preface; Introduction; 1 The Protestant Conundrum; The Colonial Inheritance: Catholicism and the State; Nation Building: The Protestant Foundation and the Catholic Threat; The Protestant Conundrum; Conclusion; 2 The Catholic Conundrum; The Catholic Counternarrative; The Catholic Conundrum; Outcomes; 3 Conversion and the West; American Religious Freedom and Catholic Conversion; The Protestant Conversion; Outcomes; 4 Schools and the State
Summary
Offers one of the first comparative treatments of Protestant and Catholic history in nineteenth-century America
