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Brokers of Culture

Italian Jesuits in the American West, 1848-1919

  • Hardback
  • 448 pages
  • Publisher: Stanford University Press
  • 16.5 x 24.2 x 3 cm

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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.

  • Title

    Brokers of Culture

  • Author

    Gerald McKevitt

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Stanford University Press

  • Published

    December 2006

  • Weight

    759g

  • Page Count

    448

  • Dimensions

    16.5 x 24.2 x 3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780804753579

  • ISBN-10

    0804753571

  • Eden Code

    1194612

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