Social, economic, and religious beliefs among Maryland Catholic people during the period of the English War, 1639-1660

Providing a complete economic, intellectual, legal and social history of the Maryland Catholics during the English Civil War and comparing it to related developments in Europe, Latin America and Africa, Dr. Terrar's analysis of the Maryland Catholic laborers' unique ideology, of their position with regard to the official Catholic ideology of the time, and of their relation to the history of liberation theology and to the Reformation will be of great interest to theologians and historians alike.