Within the Market Strife: American Catholic Economic Thought from Rerum Novarum to Vatican II

by Kevin E. Schmiesing

Book Overview

In a period often viewed by historians as one in which Catholics labored in an intellectual ghetto, shut off from mainstream American thought and culture, a number of Catholic intellectuals were thinking seriously about the relationship between Catholicism and its American context. Within the Market Strife examines these views on economic questions in the period 1891-1962, from populism and progressivism to the New Deal and post-World War II...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739108808
• ISBN13: 9780739108802
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 184 Pages