ISBN-13: 9780268016524 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 568 str.
ISBN-13: 9780268016524 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 568 str.
This work traces the ideological, institutional and social imperatives that shaped Philadelphia's Catholic community in the years between the American Revolution and the Civil War. The core of the book is a series of confrontations between Catholic bishops and dissenters, both lay and clerical.