No King, No Popery: Anti-Catholicism in Revolutionary New England

by Francis D. Cogliano

This book explores the complex relationship between anti-Catholicism, or anti-popery to use the contemporary term, and the American Revolution in New England. Anti-Catholicism was among the most common themes in colonial New England culture. Nonetheless, New Englanders entered into an alliance with French Catholics against Protestant Britons during the American Revolution. As New Englanders traditionally associated Catholicism with tyranny and oppression,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313297290
• ISBN13: 9780313297298
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"