The imperial Church: Catholic founding fathers and United States empire

The Imperial Church -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Terminology -- Introduction: Thinking with Catholicism, Empire, and History -- PART I. Jacques Marquette in the Upper Midwest -- 1. Making a Founding Father out of a French Jesuit -- 2. Imagining Peaceful Conquest -- PART II. Franciscans in Southern California -- 3. Making Parallel Histories out of Spanish Missions -- 4. Embodying Hospitality and Paternalism -- PART III. Friars in the Philippines -- 5. Revising and Rejecting Antifriarism -- 6. Envisioning Catholic Colonial Order -- Conclusion: Imperial Church Stories -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

"While Protestant justifications for U.S. empire are well known, this book argues that as the U.S. consolidated its continental dominion, established overseas colonies, and built a global empire of production and commerce in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Protestant and Catholic Americans began to celebrate Catholic imperial pasts as origins of and models for the American imperial future"--

"While Protestant justifications for U.S. empire are well known, this book argues that as the U.S. consolidated its continental dominion, established overseas colonies, and built a global empire of production and commerce in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Protestant and Catholic Americans began to celebrate Catholic imperial pasts as origins of and models for the American imperial future"--