A Voice of Our Own: "America" and the "Encyclopaedia Britannica" Controversy, 1911-1936
In April of 2009, the Jesuit periodical America celebrated its one hundredth anniversary. The current paper explores an early controversy between the editors of America and the Encyclopaedia Britannica over the representation given to Roman Catholics in the Britannica's famed 1911 edition. Thou...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2009
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American catholic studies
Year: 2009, Volume: 120, Issue: 4, Pages: 1-28 |
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| Summary: | In April of 2009, the Jesuit periodical America celebrated its one hundredth anniversary. The current paper explores an early controversy between the editors of America and the Encyclopaedia Britannica over the representation given to Roman Catholics in the Britannica's famed 1911 edition. Though the controversy was popular in its day [it was covered in the New York Times] few secondary sources have discussed it, and there has never been a detailed secondary exposition of the controversy from a Roman Catholic perspective. The paper presents the controversy descriptively from beginning to end in a "chronothematic" fashion using history of the book methodology. It explores the key players and seminal issues involved in the controversy, as well as the manner in which the final resolution of the conflict was achieved. Specific attention will be given to the history of America, its editorial relationship with the Catholic Encyclopedia, and the manner in which America was used as a propaganda tool in the debate. The paper concludes by suggesting that the challenge posed by America's editors is evidence of the magazine's central role in the revival of the American Catholic intellectual tradition in the early twentieth century. |
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| ISSN: | 2161-8534 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: American catholic studies
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