The Centennial History of Saint Edward Church, Providence, Rhode Island, 1874-1974
Author: Richard A. Walsh
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 252
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Author: Richard A. Walsh
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 252
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Christopher D. Cantwell
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2016-03-30
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 025209817X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Pew and the Picket Line collects works from a new generation of scholars working at the nexus where religious history and working-class history converge. Focusing on Christianity and its unique purchase in America, the contributors use in-depth local histories to illustrate how Americans male and female, rural and urban, and from a range of ethnic backgrounds dwelt in a space between the church and the shop floor. Their vivid essays show Pentecostal miners preaching prosperity while seeking miracles in the depths of the earth, while aboveground black sharecroppers and white Protestants establish credit unions to pursue a joint vision of cooperative capitalism. Innovative and essential, The Pew and the Picket Line reframes venerable debates as it maps the dynamic contours of a landscape sculpted by the powerful forces of Christianity and capitalism. Contributors: Christopher D. Cantwell, Heath W. Carter, Janine Giordano Drake, Ken Fones-Wolf, Erik Gellman, Alison Collis Greene, Brett Hendrickson, Dan McKanan, Matthew Pehl, Kerry L. Pimblott, Jarod Roll, Evelyn Sterne, and Arlene Sanchez Walsh.
Author: Evelyn Savidge Sterne
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-05-31
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 1501717758
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy 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.
Author: Committee for a New England Bibliography
Publisher: Hanover, N.H. : University Press of New England
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 272
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 1406
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Patrick T. Conley
Publisher: Rhode Island Publications Society
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Library of Congress
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 650
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA cumulative list of works represented by Library of Congress printed cards.
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Total Pages: 544
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Author: Library of Congress
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 648
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 1422
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