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ISBN: | 9780199842254 0199842256 128300996X 9781283009966 9786613009968 6613009962 9780195333305 0195333306
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Digital file characteristics: | data file
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-176) and index. English. Print version record.
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Summary: | Catholicism has grown from a suppressed and persecuted outsiders' religion in the American colonies to become the nation's single largest denomination. James Fisher surveys more than four centuries of Catholics' involvement in American history, starting his narrative with one of the first Spanish expeditions to Florida, in 1528. He follows the transformation of Catholicism into one of America's most culturally and ethnically diverse religions, including the English Catholics' early settlement in Maryland, the Spanish missions to the Native Americans, the Irish and German poor who came in searc.
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Other form: | Print version: Fisher, James Terence. Communion of immigrants. [New ed.]. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2008 9780195333305
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