At Peace with All Their Neighbors: Catholics and Catholicism in the National Capital, 1787-1860

by The Estate of William W Warner and William W. Warner

Book Overview

In 1790, two events marked important points in the development of two young American institutions--Congress decided that the new nation's seat of government would be on the banks of the Potomac, and John Carroll of Maryland was consecrated as America's first Catholic bishop. This coincidence of events signalled the unexpectedly important role that Maryland's Catholics, many of them by then fifth- and sixth-generation Americans, were to play in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878405577
• ISBN13: 9780878405572
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.1" x 10.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher