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Catholics in the American Century : Recasting Narratives of U.S. History / ed. by Kathleen Sprows Cummings, R. Scott Appleby.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Cushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in Twentieth-Century AmericaPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780801451409
  • 9780801465642
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.682730904 23
LOC classification:
  • E184.C3 C36 2016
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The American Catholic Century -- 1. U.S. Catholics between Memory and Modernity: How Catholics Are American -- 2. Re- viewing the Twentieth Century through an American Catholic Lens -- 3. The Catholic Encounter with the 1960s -- 4. Crossing the Catholic Divide: Gender, Sexuality, and Historiography -- 5. The New Turn in Chicano/Mexicano History: Integrating Religious Belief and Practice -- 6. The Catholic Moment in American Social Thought -- Conclusion: The Forgotten Americans? -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: 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 of race, politics, social theory, labor, and gender to address this lacuna, detailing in cogent and wide-ranging essays how Catholics negotiated gender relations, raised children, thought about war and peace, navigated the workplace and the marketplace, and imagined their place in the national myth of origins and ends. A long overdue corrective, Catholics in the American Century restores Catholicism to its rightful place in the American story.Contributors: R. Scott Appleby, University of Notre Dame; Lizabeth Cohen, Harvard University; Kathleen Sprows Cummings, University of Notre Dame; R. Marie Griffith, Washington University in St. Louis; David G. Gutiérrez, University of California, San Diego; Wilfred McClay, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga; John T. McGreevy, University of Notre Dame; Robert Orsi, Northwestern University; Thomas Sugrue, University of Pennsylvania
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The American Catholic Century -- 1. U.S. Catholics between Memory and Modernity: How Catholics Are American -- 2. Re- viewing the Twentieth Century through an American Catholic Lens -- 3. The Catholic Encounter with the 1960s -- 4. Crossing the Catholic Divide: Gender, Sexuality, and Historiography -- 5. The New Turn in Chicano/Mexicano History: Integrating Religious Belief and Practice -- 6. The Catholic Moment in American Social Thought -- Conclusion: The Forgotten Americans? -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index

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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 of race, politics, social theory, labor, and gender to address this lacuna, detailing in cogent and wide-ranging essays how Catholics negotiated gender relations, raised children, thought about war and peace, navigated the workplace and the marketplace, and imagined their place in the national myth of origins and ends. A long overdue corrective, Catholics in the American Century restores Catholicism to its rightful place in the American story.Contributors: R. Scott Appleby, University of Notre Dame; Lizabeth Cohen, Harvard University; Kathleen Sprows Cummings, University of Notre Dame; R. Marie Griffith, Washington University in St. Louis; David G. Gutiérrez, University of California, San Diego; Wilfred McClay, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga; John T. McGreevy, University of Notre Dame; Robert Orsi, Northwestern University; Thomas Sugrue, University of Pennsylvania

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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