Catholicism: a global history from the French Revolution to Pope Francis

Part I. Revolution and revival, 1789-1870

Revolution: in France and around the world

Revival: devotions, miracles, and the papacy

Democracy: how Catholics fostered and inhibited democratic revolutions

Triumph: 1848, Vatican I and the consolidation of the Catholic revival

Part II. The milieu and its discontents, 1870-1962

Milieu: why nationalists attacked Catholics and how Catholics responded

Empire: missionaries, converts, and imperialism

Nation: a Catholic nationalism?

Crisis: the politics of the 1930s

Ressourcement: opening the milieu

Decolonization: a Catholic global south

Part III. Vatican II and its aftermath, 1962-2021

Vatican II: a church transformed

Liberation: Freedom and human rights in the 1970s

Exodus: sex, gender, and turmoil

Charisma: John Paul II and the end of the Cold War

Sexual abuse (and its cover-up).