The War against Catholicism: Liberalism and the Anti-Catholic Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Germany

370 Pages·2004·8.64 MB·English

by  Michael B. Gross

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Contents
Acknowledgments
IX
LiosftA bbreovnisa ti
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Intdruocotni
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Chap1t.eRr e volutthiMeoi ns,s riyoC nrausaadned,
CathRoelviicv al 29
Chap2t.ePr r otaensttiAsnmit,- tChaoliacnitdsh me,
RecorncusttioofGn e rmLainb eralism 74
Chap3t·eTr h Aen ti-ClaiIctm haoginVaitsiiooonfn: s
thMeo nasetry 128
Chap4t·eT rh Weo me'nQsu estiAonntC,ia -tholicism,
and Ktuhlet urkampf 185
Chap5t·eKr u lturkUanmipfifoc,na a,tni tdh Wea r
agasiCtna tholicism 240
Cocnlusion 292
Bibglriaophy 303
Index 347

Acknowledgments
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