LEADER 03610nam 2200385 450 001 9910814874003321 005 20210330230702.0 010 $a1-64229-135-8 035 $a(CKB)4100000011632819 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6420186 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011632819 100 $a20210330d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aContinental achievement $eRoman Catholics in the United States : revolution and the early republic /$fKevin Starr 210 1$aSan Francisco :$cIgnatius,$d[2020] 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource (328 pages) 311 $a1-62164-263-1 327 $aQuebec City 1775 -- Valley Forge 1777-1778 -- Camden, South Carolina 1780 -- Yorktown 1781 -- Paris 1782 -- White Marsh Plantation 1783 -- Dorset, England 1790 -- Baltimore 1808 -- Emmitsburg, Maryland 1812 -- Baltimore 1821. 330 $aIn Continental Ambitions: Roman Catholics in North America, the first volume of Kevin Starr's magisterial work on American Catholics, the narrative evoked Spain, France, and Recusant England as Europeans explored, evangelized, and settled the North American continent. In Continental Achievement: Roman Catholics in the United States, the focus is on the participation of Catholics, alongside their Protestant and Jewish fellow citizens, in the Revolutionary War and the creation and development of the Republic. With the same panoramic view and cinematic style of Starr's celebrated Americans and the California Dream series, Continental Achievement documents the way in which the American Revolution allowed Roman Catholics of the English colonies of North America to earn a new and better place for themselves in the emergent Republic. John Carroll makes frequent appearances in roles of increasing importance: missionary, constitution writer for his ex-Jesuit colleagues, prefect apostolic, controversialist and defender of the faith, bishop, founder of Georgetown, cathedral developer, archbishop and metropolitan, and negotiator with the Court of Rome. In him, the Maryland ethos regarding Roman Catholicism reached a point of penultimate fulfillment. Starr also vividly portrays other representative personalities in this formative period, including Charles Carroll, the only Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence; his mother, Elizabeth Brooke Carroll; Sulpician John DuBois, whose escape from France in 1791 was arranged by Robespierre; convert Elizabeth Bayley Seton, founder of the first American sisterhood, the Sisters of Charity; Stephen Moylan, Muster-Master General of the Continental Army; Polish military engineer Thaddeus Kosciuszko; Colonel John Fitzgerald, an aide-de-camp to General Washington; Benedict Flaget, the first Bishop of Bardstown, Kentucky; merchant sea captain John Barry, who fought and won the last naval battle of the war; and William DuBourg, Bishop of Louisiana, who offered a Te Deum in a ceremony honoring General Andrew Jackson after his victory in the Battle of New Orleans. With his characteristic honesty and rigorous research, Kevin Starr gives his readers an enduring history of Catholics in the early years of the United States.--book jacket. 606 $aCatholics$zNorth America$xHistory 615 0$aCatholics$xHistory. 676 $a282.7 700 $aStarr$b Kevin$01613674 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814874003321 996 $aContinental achievement$93980763 997 $aUNINA