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For faith and fortune : the education of Catholic immigrants in Detroit, 1805-1925 JoEllen McNergney Vinyard
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks LC503.D48 V56 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vinyard, JoEllen McNergney.
- Series:
- Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Centennial series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic Church--Education--Michigan--Detroit--History--20th century.
- Catholic Church.
- Catholic Church--Education--Michigan--Detroit--History--19th century.
- Children of immigrants--Education--Michigan--Detroit--History--20th century.
- Children of immigrants.
- Irish Americans--Michigan--Detroit--History.
- Irish Americans.
- German Americans--Michigan--Detroit--History.
- German Americans.
- Polish Americans--Michigan--Detroit--History.
- Polish Americans.
- Children of immigrants--Education--Michigan--Detroit--History--19th century.
- Germans.
- Poles.
- Irish.
- Local Subjects:
- Germans.
- Poles.
- Irish.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 310 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana ; Chicago : University of Illinois Press, c1998.
- Contents:
- On common ground
- The "school question" of the 1850s
- Charting the course : the Irish, the Germans, and their teachers
- Promoting the cause : prelates, Polish immigrants, and the public schools
- Polish parish schools : the first generation
- Parish grade schools multiply
- Higher ambitions : secondary schools
- The measure of success : challenges to parochial education in the 1920s.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-289) and index.
- Local Notes:
- The Balch Institute Library and Archives
- ISBN:
- 025206707X (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- 0252024052 (cloth : acid-free paper)
- OCLC:
- 38090863
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