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At Peace with All Their Neighbors : Catholics and Catholicism in the National
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At Peace with All Their Neighbors : Catholics and Catholicism in the National Capital, 1787-1860 Hardcover - 1994

by Warner, William W

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  • Title At Peace with All Their Neighbors : Catholics and Catholicism in the National Capital, 1787-1860
  • Author Warner, William W
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Georgetown University Press, Washington, DC
  • Date 1994
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 2578140-6
  • ISBN 9780878405572 / 0878405577
  • Weight 1.77 lbs (0.80 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.09 x 7.1 x 1 in (25.63 x 18.03 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
    • Geographic Orientation: Maryland
    • Religious Orientation: Catholic
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
    • Theometrics: Academic
  • Library of Congress subjects Washington (D.C.) - Church history - 18th, Washington (D.C.) - Church history - 19th
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94-6999
  • Dewey Decimal Code 282.753

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From the rear cover

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 the growth and early government of the national capital. In this book William W. Warner explores how Maryland's Catholics drew upon their long-standing traditions - advocacy of separation of church and state, a sense of civic duty, and a determination "to live at peace with all their neighbors", in Bishop Carroll's phrase - to take a prominent role in the early government, financing, and building of the new capital. Beginning with brief histories of the area's first Catholic churches and the establishment of Georgetown College, At Peace with All Their Neighbors explains the many reasons behind the Protestant majority's acceptance of Catholicism in the national capital in an age often marked by religious intolerance. This chronicle of Washington's Catholic community and its major contributions to the growth of the nation's capital will be of value for everyone interested in the history of Washington, D.C., Catholic history, and the history of religious toleration in America.

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 10/15/1994, Page 71

About the author

William W. Warner is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs, and the Chesapeake Bay (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1976; reissued by Little Brown, 1994) and Distant Water: The Fate of the North Atlantic Fisherman (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1983) which was nominated as a distinguished work of non-fiction by the National Book Critics Circle. He formerly was assistant secretary for public service at the Smithsonian Institution.

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