Against popery : Britain, empire, and Anti-Catholicism /

"Against Popery: Britain, Empire, and Anti-Catholicism is a collection of interdisciplinary essays that use anti-popery as a framework for interpreting the culture and politics of the British-American world. Anti-popery is identified by scholars of early modern England as an ideology of liberty asso...

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Other Authors:	Haefeli, Evan, 1969- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2020.
Series:	Early American histories.
Subjects:	Anti-Catholicism > Great Britain. Anti-Catholicism > United States. Religious tolerance > Great Britain. Religious tolerance > United States. Anti-Catholicism. Religious tolerance. Great Britain. United States.
Summary:	"Against Popery: Britain, Empire, and Anti-Catholicism is a collection of interdisciplinary essays that use anti-popery as a framework for interpreting the culture and politics of the British-American world. Anti-popery is identified by scholars of early modern England as an ideology of liberty associated with anti-Catholicism-an opposition to tyranny and corruption associated with the papacy. Spanning three centuries, these essays reveal anti-popery as an agent of cultural and political change, from Protestants' positive engagement with selected aspects of Catholic culture to upheavals like the American Revolution"--