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A Twentieth-Century Crusade
The Vatican’s Battle to Remake Christian Europe
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2019
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Giuliana Chamedes offers the first comprehensive history of the Vatican’s efforts to defeat the forces of secular liberalism and communism through international law, cultural diplomacy, and a marriage of convenience with authoritarian and right-wing rulers.
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Fascinating…A work of tremendous ambitions and impressive panoramic scope. Beautifully written and thoroughly researched, it charts one of the 20th century’s most far-reaching cultural-political projects, which stretched over dozens of countries and unfolded over decades…What Chamedes has superbly charted is the world that [Pope] Francis has set to demolish. How his alternative will fare, and whether it will succeed where his predecessors had failed, is still to be seen.
-- Udi Greenberg Los Angeles Review of Books
-- Udi Greenberg Los Angeles Review of Books
Readers seeking backstories for the Vatican agreements that legitimated Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany will not be disappointed. Nor will students wrestling with how to place the Vatican within the global history of the twentieth century…Part intellectual history, part history of the international system, part collective biography.
-- Piotr H. Kosicki Times Literary Supplement
-- Piotr H. Kosicki Times Literary Supplement
Eye-opening…Zealous hostility to communism and socialism led the church into legal alliance with right-wing reactionaries…This fascinating book highlights that the church’s present is always in dialogue with its past.
-- Christopher Kissane Irish Times
-- Christopher Kissane Irish Times
This study of what preceded Vatican II can help one to appreciate the Council even more.
-- Michael Fitzgerald The Tablet
-- Michael Fitzgerald The Tablet
Has the potential for very broad appeal…Chamedes’ work seems to provide the necessary framework for any future study of Catholic internationalism.
-- Anastasiia Akulich European Review of History
-- Anastasiia Akulich European Review of History
Superb…Chamedes’s book is a magisterial achievement. It will remain the standard work on Catholic internationalism for years.
-- Peter McDonough Journal of Church and State
-- Peter McDonough Journal of Church and State
Chamedes’s excellent new book is a welcome corrective to standard narratives about the papacy’s supposed irrelevance in modern international history…A fluidly written, engaging and ground-breaking work that deserves a wide audience. This book will benefit…anyone seeking to understand the role of ideology in modern international history.
-- Patrick J. Houlihan Journal of Ecclesiastical History
While much has been written about the Catholic anti-Communist crusade in the interwar period, [Chamedes] examines it more thoroughly and comprehensively than most historians have done hitherto…This is an important monograph on an important aspect of the history of the papacy in the twentieth century.
-- John Pollard Journal of Modern History
-- John Pollard Journal of Modern History
The picture that emerges of the Church’s political role in twentieth-century Europe is utterly damning…Will stand as a vital account of the uses to which [the Vatican’s] force has been put, shorn of apologetics and exhaustively documented.
-- Daniel Finn New Left Review
-- Daniel Finn New Left Review
This important book reveals the unknown story of the Vatican’s efforts to reshape international relations in the twentieth century. Facing new competition from secularism, liberalism, and communism, the Church responded with an international program of its own: ‘concordat diplomacy.’ In recovering this lost history, Chamedes sheds new light on seemingly familiar terrain and enhances our understanding of a complicated past that continues to resonate today.
-- Andrew Preston, author of Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy
-- Andrew Preston, author of Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy
This is transnational history at its best. In this impressively researched book, Giuliana Chamedes reaches into all corners of the European continent as she brings forth the crucial role of the Vatican and its particular brand of internationalism in Europe’s tumultuous twentieth century. It is essential reading for those interested in modern Europe and in religion.
-- Elizabeth Foster, author of African Catholic
-- Elizabeth Foster, author of African Catholic
Chamedes offers a pathbreaking study of twentieth-century Catholic internationalism and papal diplomacy that illuminates a vast terrain of hitherto unknown transnational activity. Her book is not just an eye-opening addition to the literature on internationalism, it reframes our understanding of twentieth-century modernity. An essential contribution.
-- Adam Tooze, author of Crashed
-- Adam Tooze, author of Crashed
This comprehensive study provides a broad perspective on 20th-century papal diplomacy's crusade to sustain Catholic influence in European society.
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Contents
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Introduction
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1. The Threat of a Secular Order
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2. A New Catholic Diplomacy
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3. Papal Officials Build Local Bridges
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4. The Fascist Temptation
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5. Launching the Anticommunist Crusade
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6. Catholic Anti-Fascism, Silenced
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7. The War for the Soul of Catholicism
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8. The Papal Agenda after World War II
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9. History Haunts the Church
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10. The Upending of Catholic Internationalism
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Epilogue
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Abbreviations
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Acknowledgments
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Index
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