Danger on the Doorstep
Subtitle: Anti-Catholicism and American Print Culture in the Progressive Era
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: September 15, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780268036058
Subjects: Popular culture; Press & journalism; Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church; Social history; First World War, 1914-1918; c 1900 - c 1914; History; History - General History; History: American; USA; Christianity - History - Catholic; Media Studies - Print Media; United States - General; Christianity - Catholic; United States - 20th Century; Anti-Catholicism; Press; Publicity; United States
Description: "From 1910 to the end of World War I, American society witnessed a tremendous outpouring of books, pamphlets, and newspapers expressing intense anti-Catholic hostility and calling on readers to recognize the danger Catholicism posed to the American republic. Anti-Catholic propaganda of this decade revived older xenophobic traditions in the United States, while revealing writers' deep anxieties about the early twentieth century. Justin Nordstrom's Danger on the Doorstep examines for the first time the rise and abrupt decline of anti-Catholic literature during the Progressive Era, as well as the issues and motivations that informed anti-Catholic writers and their "Romanist" opponents."--Jacket.