| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Evelyn Savidge Sterne. Ballots and Bibles: Ethnic Politics and the Catholic Church in Providence. (Cushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in Twentieth-Century America.) Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2004. Pp. xv, 294. $34.95.

"I think one is wrong," wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in Democracy in America (1835), "in regarding the Catholic religion as a natural enemy of democracy." Although Evelyn Savidge Sterne does not invoke Tocqueville's insight explicitly, her excellent new book confirms his observation and illuminates it with great detail. Sterne explores the political culture of American Catholicism in Providence, Rhode Island, in the years between the Dorr Rebellion of 1842 and the pivotal political campaign of 1928. She points out that although property qualifications for voting effectively disenfranchised the majority of Providence's immigrant poor (and especially its Irish, French-Canadian, and Italian residents) this does not mean that they were apolitical. To the contrary, Sterne shows us how Catholic immigrants, women and men alike, fashioned a robust public presence in the life of the city.

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