Papal Diplomacy in the Modern Age [Hardcover]

This volume brings together some of the leading scholars of Vatican history to examine papal diplomacy in the 19th and 20th centuries. Essays consider the role of the Vatican in the major events of the modern era (the unification of Italy, World Wars I and II, the Holocaust, the war in Vietnam, the Nicaraguan revolution). Other essays examine the way in which the Papacy conducts its relations with secular states, specifically addressing its relationship with Ireland, Canada, the United States, and Yugoslavia. And three essays consider the place of the Vatican in the politics of the contemporary Middle East. This important work provides a sense of the complex nature of the Papacy's involvement in the political and diplomatic issues of the modern world.

PETER C. KENT is Professor of History and Dean of Arts at the University if New Brunswick in Canada. He is the author ofThe Pope and the Duce(1981).

JOHN F. POLLARD is Professor and Department Head of History at Anglia Polytechnic University in England. He is the author ofThe Vatican and Italian Fascism, 1929-32 (1985).

Preface
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Introduction: Reflections on Vatican Diplomacy by Robert A. Graham, S.J.
A Diplomacy Unlike Any Other: Papal Diplomacy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Peter C. Kent and John F. Pollard
The Vatican and the Austrian Empire during the Restoration, 1814-1846 by Alan J. Reinerman
The Diplomacy of Intransigence: Vatican Policy during the Risorgimento by Frank J. Coppa
Una furia pi? che francese : The Quebec Church and Vatican Diplomacy in the Age of Anglo-Canadian Protestant Domination by Roberto Perin
The Vatican and the Roman Catholic Church in Atlantic Canada: Policies Regarding Ethnicity and Language, 1878-1922 by Phyllis E. LeBlanc
The Emergence of a New Vatican Diplomacy During the Great War and Its Aftermath, 1914-1929 by Stewart A. Stehlin
Ireland and the Vatican, 1921-1949 by Dermot Keogh
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