Papist Devils: Catholics in British America, 1574–1783 by Robert Emmett Curran (review)
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Reviewed by: Papist Devils: Catholics in British America, 1574–1783 by Robert Emmett Curran Jason K. Duncan Papist Devils: Catholics in British America, 1574–1783. By Robert Emmett Curran. ( Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press. 2014. Pp. xviii, 315. $29.95 paperback ISBN 978-0-8132-2583-8.) Arthur Schlesinger Sr. once famously remarked that “anti-Catholicism was the oldest prejudice in American history.” In a masterful work by a senior scholar covering the first two centuries of history in British America, Robert Emmett Curran illuminates what Schlesinger meant. Devoting his introduction to the European background of this story, Curran demonstrates the long-term consequences of Henry VIII’s break with the Catholic Church in the 1530s. As England struggled for the better part of two centuries to determine if it would be a Protestant or a Catholic kingdom, its colonies in the New World became caught up in the turmoil. The effect of this history on American Catholics
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Reviewed by: Papist Devils: Catholics in British America, 1574–1783 by Robert Emmett Curran Jason K. Duncan Papist Devils: Catholics in British America, 1574–1783. By Robert Emmett Curran. ( Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press. 2014. Pp. xviii, 315. $29.95 paperback ISBN 978-0-8132-2583-8.) Arthur Schlesinger Sr. once famously remarked that “anti-Catholicism was the oldest prejudice in American history.” In a masterful work by a senior scholar covering the first two centuries of history in British America, Robert Emmett Curran illuminates what Schlesinger meant. Devoting his introduction to the European background of this story, Curran demonstrates the long-term consequences of Henry VIII’s break with the Catholic Church in the 1530s. As England struggled for the better part of two centuries to determine if it would be a Protestant or a Catholic kingdom, its colonies in the New World became caught up in the turmoil. The effect of this history on American Catholics
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