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Stephen Andes's highly insightful book draws attention to the influence wielded outside Europe by an institution that has largely operated under the radar; it is an important addition to the growing body of archival-based work on the modern papacy. * Philip Chrimes, International Affairs * Stephen Andes's excellent study of transnational Catholic politics in Mexico, Chile, and Rome connects two national histories to interwar Vatican diplomacy ... It gives real insights into how the Vatican centralized political dialogue with the Latin American states, recouping the political capital of social Catholicism and finessing the local contours of Church and state in the process. * Catholic Historical Review *

When the volcano of Civil War erupted in 1861, American literature had already achieved maturity in the writings of Emerson, Melville, Whitman, Hawthorne, and others. All of them, plus new voices like Emily Dickinson, tried to understand and express the profound meaning of the war in their writings, which Randall Fuller skillfully dissects in this original and incisive volume. -James M. McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom In this lucid and insightful work, Randall Fuller probes the creative and intellectual responses of some of the nation's greatest writers to the Civil War. The result is a luminous and revealing portrait of American literary culture in a period of volcanic eruption. -Louis P. Masur, author of TheCivil War: A Concise History This is a beautiful, powerful book, uniting the pivotal event of American history with the defining literature of the nation. Fuller's account is filled with humanity, eloquence, and surprise. Anyone who reads this book will see both the Civil War and America's iconic authors with new eyes. --Edward Ayers, author of In The Presence of Mine Enemies Fuller's book is a moving excursion through the writers who found their language altered by the convulsions of the American Civil War. From Alcott to Emerson, Dickinson to Douglass, Melville to Hawthorne, Fuller traces connections both familiar and strange, granting careful attention to new literary configurations in the wake of war. -Shirley Samuels, author of Facing America: Iconography and the Civil War Highly recommended. -Library Journal A fresh and fascinating look not only at Melville, Emerson, Whitman, and Hawthorne but at lesser lights and the loyalties that drove them...It should stand high on any must-read list of books, old or new, as we move into the Civil War anniversary years. -The Weekly Standard When it comes to the Civil War, there's no poem or novel or even author who leaves us saying: This is the on

Well written and handsomely illustrated... [A] valuable addition to the bookshelf. --Montreal Gazette A well-rounded portrait. ... This book is reliable and thorough; a handy handbook on the forces of tradition and modernity. --Montreal Review of Books For anyone wanting to know more about Quebec, a little or even a lot, this book has much to recommend it. --Life in Quebec This should become the go-to history of Quebec. --Brian Young, Canada's History

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Stephen J. C. Andes received his doctorate at Oxford University and is assistant professor in the history of Latin America at Louisiana State University. The Mexico Section of the Latin American Studies Association awarded him the best dissertation prize in 2010-2011. His recent work includes an article exploring the impact of the Vatican on Catholic identity in post-revolutionary Mexico and a chapter in an edited volume detailing the impact of the Cristero Rebellion (1926-1929) on Chilean Catholics. In April 2012 he published an article in The Americas journal entitled 'A Catholic Alternative to Revolution: The Survival of Social Catholicism in Postrevolutionary Mexico'. His current book project is a biography of Gustavo Gutiérrez, one of the intellectual founders of liberation theology.

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