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Author: Mary Vincent (Lecturer in Modern European History, Lecturer in Modern European History, University of Sheffield)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Clarendon Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.60cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 22.40cm
Weight: 0.503kg
ISBN: 9780198206132
ISBN 10: 0198206135
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 28 March 1996
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
[T]his is an extremely well done provincial study. It provides one of the best accounts that we have of any province during the Republican years, and its study of Salamancan Catholicism is excellent. --The Catholic Historical Review Tha author makes a number of important contributions to the study of religion and politics in the Second Republic. --Journal of Modern History
What is novel and exciting about Mary Vincent's book is that it is the first social history of mobilization by the forces of the right. Susan Tax Freeman, American Historical Review, Feb. 99. Why Nelken was right is graphically explained in Mary Vincent's vivid account of the class dimension of female religiosity in her wide-ranging study of Catholic society and politics in Spain...Vincent's study is required reading...This is the best kind of local study, casting its light far beyond the confines of the area studied...Sharply and elegantly written, with frequent shafts of wit and irony Times Higher Education Supplement Building her fascinating account from patchy and unpromising source material, Dr Vincent successfully evokes and fairly explains the Salmantine version of the traditional Catholic world-view and ... valuably details the work of the orders and laity in providing schooling and social assistance when there were minimal secular facilities ... well-written work enriched by vivid quotations. R.A.H. Robinson, University of Birmingham, History, Vol. 83, No. 269
`What is novel and exciting about Mary Vincent's book is that it is the first social history of mobilization by the forces of the right.' Susan Tax Freeman, American Historical Review, Feb. 99. `Why Nelken was right is graphically explained in Mary Vincent's vivid account of the class dimension of female religiosity in her wide-ranging study of Catholic society and politics in Spain...Vincent's study is required reading...This is the best kind of local study, casting its light far beyond the confines of the area studied...Sharply and elegantly written, with frequent shafts of wit and irony' Times Higher Education Supplement `Building her fascinating account from patchy and unpromising source material, Dr Vincent successfully evokes and fairly explains the Salmantine version of the traditional Catholic world-view and ... valuably details the work of the orders and laity in providing schooling and social assistance when there were minimal secular facilities ... well-written work enriched by vivid quotations.' R.A.H. Robinson, University of Birmingham, History, Vol. 83, No. 269
[T]his is an extremely well done provincial study. It provides one of the best accounts that we have of any province during the Republican years, and its study of Salamancan Catholicism is excellent. --The Catholic Historical Review<br> Tha author makes a number of important contributions to the study of religion and politics in the Second Republic. --Journal of Modern History<br>
