Author: Henry Weber Casper (S.J.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The Church on the Northern Plains, 1838-1874
Author: Henry Weber Casper (S.J.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The Church on the Northern Plains, 1838-1874
Author: Henry Weber CasperHISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN NEBRASKA: THE CHURCH ON THE NORTHERN PLAINS 1838-1874
Author: Henry CasperHistory of the Catholic Church in Nebraska Vol. 1 The Church on the Northern Plains 1838-1874
Author: Henry W. Casper (S.J.)Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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History of the Catholic Church in Northeast Nebraska
Author: Henry W. CasperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nebraska
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The Church and the Land
Author: David S BovéePublisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 0813217202
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
*A history of the American Catholic Churchs policy toward rural issues in the past century*
Beyond the American Pale
Author: David M. EmmonsPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806184531
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Convention has it that Irish immigrants in the nineteenth century confined themselves mainly to industrial cities of the East and Midwest. The truth is that Irish Catholics went everywhere in America and often had as much of a presence in the West as in the East. In Beyond the American Pale, David M. Emmons examines this multifaceted experience of westering Irish and, in doing so, offers a fresh and discerning account of America's westward expansion. "Irish in the West" is not a historical contradiction, but it is — and was — a historical problem. Irish Catholics were not supposed to be in the West—that was where Protestant Americans went to reinvent themselves. For many of the same reasons that the spread of southern slavery was thought to profane the West, a Catholic presence there was thought to contradict it — to contradict America's Protestant individualism and freedom. The Catholic Irish were condemned as the clannish, backward remnants of an old cultural world that Americans self-consciously sought to leave behind. The sons and daughters of Erin were not assimilated, and because they were not assimilable, they should be kept beyond the American pale. As Emmons amply demonstrates, however, western reality was far more complicated. Irish Catholicism may have outraged Protestant-inspired American republicanism, but Irish Catholics were a necessary component of America's equally Protestant-inspired foray into industrial capitalism. They were also necessary to the successive conquests of the "frontier," wherever it might be found. It was the Irish who helped build the railroads, dig the hard rocks, man the army posts, and do the other arduous, dangerous, and unattractive toiling required by an industrializing society. With vigor and panache, Emmons describes how the West was not so much won as continually contested and reshaped. He probes the self-fulfilling mythology of the American West, along with the far different mythology of the Irish pioneers. The product of three decades of research and thought, Beyond the American Pale is a masterful yet accessible recasting of American history, the culminating work of a singular thinker willing to take a wholly new perspective on the past.
History of the Catholic Church in Nebraska: The church on the fading frontier, 1864-1910
Author: Henry Weber CasperIreland's New Worlds
Author: Malcolm CampbellPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299223304
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
In the century between the Napoleonic Wars and the Irish Civil War, more than seven million Irish men and women left their homeland to begin new lives abroad. While the majority settled in the United States, Irish emigrants dispersed across the globe, many of them finding their way to another “New World,” Australia. Ireland’s New Worlds is the first book to compare Irish immigrants in the United States and Australia. In a profound challenge to the national histories that frame most accounts of the Irish diaspora, Malcolm Campbell highlights the ways that economic, social, and cultural conditions shaped distinct experiences for Irish immigrants in each country, and sometimes in different parts of the same country. From differences in the level of hostility that Irish immigrants faced to the contrasting economies of the United States and Australia, Campbell finds that there was much more to the experiences of Irish immigrants than their essential “Irishness.” America’s Irish, for example, were primarily drawn into the population of unskilled laborers congregating in cities, while Australia’s Irish, like their fellow colonialists, were more likely to engage in farming. Campbell shows how local conditions intersected with immigrants’ Irish backgrounds and traditions to create surprisingly varied experiences in Ireland’s new worlds. Outstanding Book, selected by the American Association of School Librarians, and Best Books for Special Interests, selected by the Public Library Association “Well conceived and thoroughly researched . . . . This clearly written, thought-provoking work fulfills the considerable ambitions of comparative migration studies.”—Choice
The Catholic Church
Author: Alphonsus PluthPublisher:
ISBN: 9780884891628
Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description