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Brokers of Culture: Italian Jesuits in the American West, 1848-1919
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Brokers of Culture: Italian Jesuits in the American West, 1848-1919 Hardcover - 2006 - 1st Edition

by McKevitt, Gerald

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  • Title Brokers of Culture: Italian Jesuits in the American West, 1848-1919
  • Author McKevitt, Gerald
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 448
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, U.S.A.
  • Date 2006-12-14
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0804753571.G
  • ISBN 9780804753579 / 0804753571
  • Weight 1.67 lbs (0.76 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.52 x 6.48 x 1.16 in (24.18 x 16.46 x 2.95 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1919
    • Cultural Region: Western U.S.
    • Ethnic Orientation: Multicultural
    • Religious Orientation: Catholic
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
  • Library of Congress subjects Jesuits - Missions - United States - History, Jesuits - West (U.S) - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006019061
  • Dewey Decimal Code 271.530

From the publisher

Brokers of Culture examines the interactions among multiple ethnic groups in the American West and a group of nearly four hundred Italian Jesuits who emigrated to the United States after 1848 in the wake of the Italian unification movement. The first wave of exiles taught in Jesuit colleges on the East Coast, where they played a major role in reforming American seminary education. From their eastern base, the dispersed clerics moved to the frontier, shaping the evolution of culture in eleven western states. The Jesuits' most powerful source of influence was their western colleges, which adhered to educational traditions brought from Europe while simultaneously meeting the needs of an ethnically mixed and mobile frontier population.

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Brokers of Culture examines the interactions among multiple ethnic groups in the American West and a group of nearly four hundred Italian Jesuits who emigrated to the United States after 1848 in the wake of the Italian unification movement. The first wave of exiles taught in Jesuit colleges on the East Coast, where they played a major role in reforming American seminary education. From their eastern base, the dispersed clerics moved to the frontier, shaping the evolution of culture in eleven western states. The Jesuits' most powerful source of influence was their western colleges, which adhered to educational traditions brought from Europe while simultaneously meeting the needs of an ethnically mixed and mobile frontier population.

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  • Reference and Research Bk News, 05/01/2007, Page 27

About the author

Gerald McKevitt is Ignacio Ellacura SJ Professor of Jesuit Studies at Santa Clara University. He is author of The University of Santa Clara: A History, 1851-1977 (Stanford University Press, 1979).

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