Boston Priests, 1848-1910: A Study of Social and Intellectual Change

By Donna Merwick

Book Overview

Donna Merwick rejects the usual assumption that Boston Catholism is, definitively, Irish Catholicism. In her penetrating studying of three distinct generations of Boston priests in the late nineteenth century, the author shows that Irish Catholicism met with steady opposition.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674079752
• ISBN13: 9780674079755
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"