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