| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.1

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Book Review

English and Catholic: The Lords Baltimore in the Seventeenth Century. By John D. Krugler. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. xvi, 319 pp. $46.00, ISBN 0-8018-7963-9.)

To be Catholic in seventeenth-century England was to steer one's course in an unblushingly anti-Catholic culture and to have one's loyalty to the country inevitably held in suspicion. In his new book, John D. Krugler sets out to examine the experiences of Catholic Lords Baltimore as successful politicians and colonizers in that inimical environment. Much of the study is devoted to a careful and well-documented reconstruction of the life of George Calvert, the first Lord Baltimore, and of his son Cecil's four decades-long proprietorship of Maryland. Charles, the third Lord Baltimore, who did not rise to the challenge of his predecessors and witnessed the demise of his proprietorship in 1689, receives a relatively brief treatment.

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