Call number
282.7 FIS
Status
Available
Call number
Pages
176
Description
Catholicism has grown from a suppressed and persecuted outsiders' religion in the American colonies to become the nation's single largest denomination. James Fisher surveys more than four centuries of Catholics' involvement in American history, starting his narrative with one of the first Spanish expeditions to Florida, in 1528. He follows the transformation of Catholicism into one of America's most culturally and ethnically diverse religions, including the English Catholics' early settlement in Maryland, the Spanish missions to the Native Americans, the Irish and German poor who came in searc
Publication
Oxford University Press (2000), Edition: 1, 176 pages
Original publication date
2002; rev ed 2008
ISBN
0195111796 / 9780195111798