| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Anne C. Rose. Beloved Strangers: Interfaith Families in Nineteenth-Century America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2001. Pp. xii, 288. $39.95.
This is an important book. It helps to correct common lapses in American historiography: social histories in which religion is absent or an afterthought, and religious studies in which family life and the larger society seem irrelevant.	1
By 1800, American novelists were portraying interfaith marriages, which Baltimore's archbishop admitted in 1802 were performed by Catholic priests, which affected one-half of all Jews in antebellum New Orleans, which a Jewish periodical described as "epidemic" in 1866, and which involved one-third of Catholics in 1880s Detroit. Anne C. Rose portrays a variegated landscape of families with competing religious faiths, accommodations, and outcomes. Because the book follows the marriages of persons born in the late 1800s, it extends into the 1930s.	2
The book emphasizes elites. Among these are Philadelphia publisher Matthew Carey, authors Joel Chandler Harris and Ralph Barton Perry, U.S. senators David Yulee, Stephen Douglas, Zebulon Vance, and Judah Benjamin, Union general William Tecumseh Sherman, and millionaire James Stokes. It includes the unlikely marriage of a Catholic woman to a leader of the anti-Catholic Know-Nothing Party. There were different outcomes for the study's marriages. Few ended in divorce, but all involved careful negotiation of religious differences. Some spouses maintained their faith, others converted—sometimes on deathbeds. In some families, all children followed the faith of one parent; in others, children split religiously.	. . .

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