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Mcgill-Queen's Studies in the Hist of Re Ser.: Waning of the Green : Catholics, the Irish, and Identity in Toronto, 1887-1922 by Mark G. McGowan (1999, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherMcGill-Queen's University Press

ISBN-100773517901

ISBN-139780773517905

eBay Product ID (ePID)1644688

Product Key Features

Number of Pages432 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameWaning of the Green : Catholics, the Irish, and Identity in Toronto, 1887-1922

Publication Year1999

SubjectEthnic Studies / General, Christianity / Catholic, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, History, Sociology / Urban

TypeTextbook

AuthorMark G. Mcgowan

Subject AreaReligion, Social Science

SeriesMcgill-Queen's Studies in the Hist of Re Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight20.8 Oz

Item Length9.1 in

Item Width7.3 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

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Reviews"The Waning of the Green presents a rich and nuanced portrait of how Toronto's Irish Catholic population defined their collective identity and understood their place in the wider Canadian society. It ranks with Jay Dolan's pioneering work, The Immigrant Church, as the best historical study on a Roman Catholic community in North America. It is an impressive work that, I suspect, will be devoured by historians of ethnicity and Christianity not only in Canada but also in the United States, Australia, and Ireland." Brian P. Clarke, Emmanuel College, Toronto School of Theology

Series Volume Number32

IllustratedYes

SynopsisMcGowan traces the evolution of the Catholic community from an isolated religious and Irish ethnic subculture in the late nineteenth century into an integrated segment of English Canadian society by the early twentieth century. English-speaking Catholics moved into all neighbourhoods of the city and socialized with and married non-Catholics. They even embraced their own brand of imperialism: by 1914 thousands of them had enlisted to fight for God and the British Empire. McGowan's detailed and lively portrait will be of great interest to students and scholars of religious history, Irish studies, ethnic history, and Canadian history., Most historical accounts of the Irish Catholic community in Toronto describe it as a poor underclass of society, ghettoized by the largely British, Protestant population and characterized by the sectarian violence between Protestants and Catholics that ea