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035			_a(DE-B1597)9781501717758
035			_a(DE-B1597)533930
035			_a(OCoLC)1101029496
040			_aDE-B1597 _beng _cDE-B1597 _erda
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082	0	4	_a322/.1/09745209034 _222
084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aSterne, Evelyn Savidge _eautore
245	1	0	_aBallots and Bibles : _bEthnic Politics and the Catholic Church in Providence / _cEvelyn Savidge Sterne.
264		1	_aIthaca, NY : _bCornell University Press, _c[2018]
264		4	_c©2008
300			_a1 online resource (320 p.) : _b29 halftones
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_atext file _bPDF _2rda
490	0		_aCushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in Twentieth-Century America
505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tCONTENTS -- _tILLUSTRATIONS -- _tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- _tABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE TEXT -- _tINTRODUCTION -- _tI. THE LIMITS OF ELECTORAL POLITICS -- _tII. THE POTENTIAL OF CATHOLIC ACTIVISM -- _tIII. THE FLOWERING OF CATHOLIC POLITICS -- _tCONCLUSION -- _tABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE NOTES -- _tNOTES -- _tINDEX
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aBy 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 its population was Catholic—Rhode Island was the first state in the nation to have a Catholic majority. Civic leaders, for whom Protestantism was an essential component of American identity, systematically sought to exclude the city's Catholic immigrants from participation in public life, most flagrantly by restricting voting rights. Through her account of the newcomers' fight for political inclusion, Evelyn Savidge Sterne offers a fresh perspective on the nationwide struggle to define American identity at the turn of the twentieth century.In a departure from standard histories of immigrants and workers in the United States, Ballots and Bibles views religion as a critical tool for new Americans seeking to influence public affairs. In Providence, this book demonstrates, Catholics used their parishes as political organizing spaces. Here they learned to be speakers and leaders, eventually orchestrating a successful response to Rhode Island's Americanization campaigns and claiming full membership in the nation. The Catholic Church must, Sterne concludes, be considered as powerful an engine for ethnic working-class activism from the 1880s until the 1930s as the labor union or the political machine.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024)
650		0	_aCatholics _xPolitical activity _zRhode Island _zProvidence _xHistory.
650		0	_aChristianity and politics _xCatholic Church _xHistory.
650		0	_aChristianity and politics _zRhode Island _zProvidence _xHistory.
650		0	_aImmigrants _xPolitical activity _zRhode Island _zProvidence _xHistory.
650		4	_aReligious Studies.
650		4	_aU.S. History.
650		7	_aHISTORY / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT). _2bisacsh
850			_aIT-RoAPU
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.7591/9781501717758
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501717758
856	4	2	_3Cover _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501717758/original
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