Continental ambitions
Subtitle: Roman Catholics in North America : the Colonial experience
By: Kevin Starr
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 639
ISBN-13: 9781621641186
Subjects: Catholics; History; Catholic Church; Indians of North America; Treatment of Indians
Description: This book details  three Roman Catholic civilizations--Spain, France, and Recusant England--as they explored, evangelized, and settled the North American continent.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 567-605) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Garðar 1126: Bishop Eric Gnupson arrives in Greenland as Scandinavians advance Christianity across the North Atlantic; title: Pt. 1. Las Floridas. Santo Domingo 1511: Resistance grows against the genocide and enslavement of indigenous peoples; title: Quivira 1527:  Dreams of empire mingle with evangelical ambition; title: Saint Augustine 1565: Evangelization falters amid violence, slavery, and revolt; title: Apalachee 1595: Friars and soldiers hold the Florida frontier; title: Pt. 2. The Spanish Borderlands. Ácoma 1599: New Mexico, anchor kingdom of the Borderlands, begins with a massacre; title: San Fernando de Béxar 1718: Texas is organized as a buffer province; title: Loreto 1767: The Society of Jesus gains and loses its Pacific domain; title: Pt. 3. Las Californias. San Blas 1768: New Spain launches an entrada into Alta California; title: The Bay of San Francisco 1776: New Spain secures a strategic harbor on the Pacific coast; title: Santa Barbara 1842: Secularization brings a bishop to the Californias; title: Pt. 4. New France. Port-Royal 1606: Humanism inspires the foundation of New France; title: Quebec 1615: The Counter-Reformation and Catholic Revival take hold in New France; title: Ville-Marie (Montreal) 1642: Dévots found a city on the far frontier; title: Saint-Ignace 1649: Iroquois destroy Huronia and threaten the survival of New France; title: The Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés 1658: The secret consecration of a vicar apostolic for Quebec brings Roman Catholicism to new maturity; title: New Orleans 1722: A Jesuit savant reconnoiters French North America; title: Natchez 1729: The MIssissippi valley and Louisiana are explored and evangelized; title: Pt. 5. British North America. The River Boyne 1869: A king and a peer lose their colonies; title: Annapolis 1704: Catholic settlement spreads through the Chesapeake region; title: London 1763: Catholic Maryland seeks education abroad while Philadelphia prefigures an American Catholic future; title: Envoy: John Carroll returns to Maryland.