Toleration and State Institutions: British Policy Toward Catholics in Eighteenth Century Ireland and Quebec

by Karen Stanbridge

Toleration and State Institutions explores the rise of more charitable British policy toward Catholics in Ireland and in Quebec, beginning in the latter half of the eighteenth century. Karen Stanbridge carefully demonstrates that "Catholic relief" arose more gradually, and encountered less opposition, than is generally maintained. This work sheds new light on the official treatment (and mistreatment) of minorities at home during the height...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739105582
• ISBN13: 9780739105580
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 225 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"