Author : William J. Phalen
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786484683
American Evangelical Protestantism and European Immigrants, 1800Ð1924 by William J. Phalen Pdf
Few topics are as pertinent to the American political scene as immigration. This timely book examines the attitude of American Evangelical Protestants toward European immigration into the United States before the Immigration Act of 1924. Of particular interest are the effects, as seen by evangelicals, that immigration had in the cities, in education, in politics, and in the evangelical quest to win the prohibition of alcohol. It also addresses the rise of the 19th century evangelical’s main ethnic opponent, the Irish immigrant, and the Irish dominance of the American Catholic Church. The text is based largely upon the writings, speeches, and sermons of evangelicalism.