| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.4

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Book Review

Ballots & Bibles: Ethnic Politics and the Catholic Church in Providence. By Evelyn Savidge Sterne. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004. xviii, 294 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8014-4117-X.)

Historical studies of American ethnic politics have typically focused on one of two phenomena. Some explore immigrant participation in machine politics; others examine efforts to mobilize newcomers in class terms. Evelyn Savidge Sterne insists that both approaches overlook a key component of immigrant civic life. In Ballots & Bibles, she aims "to integrate religion into the history of ethnic politics in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America" (p. 9). She succeeds admirably, effectively challenging both political historians who ignore the Catholic Church's impact on public life and social historians who dismiss it as simply a conservative institution that discouraged radicalism.

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