Benefit-cost analyses have, in the 1980s, become a standard component of impact studies required, usually by legislative directive, in the assessment of major resource development proposals throughout North America. The objective is to provide decision makers with the best possible estimate of net benefits to be realized from the proposed development.
The author explores antebellum America's anti-Catholic imagination, how it informed the Beecher family, and how Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel The Minister's Wooing responded to that ethos. Rejecting her family's and her nation's anti-Catholicism, Stowe portrays an ideal, sympathetic community of Catholic and Protestant women in the New England home.
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