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Brokers of Culture

Gerald McKevitt

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Description for Brokers of Culture Hardback. Brokers of Culture analyzes how Italian Jesuit missionary emigres attempted to integrate a heterogeneous western population (Native Americans, Hispanics, European immigrants, and native-born Americans) into a global religious community while simultaneously facilitating those groups' entry into American society. Num Pages: 448 pages, 9 figures, 22 illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; HRCC7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 29. Weight in Grams: 757.

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 ... Read more

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Format

Hardback

Publication date

2006

Publisher

Stanford University Press United States

Number of pages

448

Condition

New

Number of Pages

448

Place of Publication

Palo Alto, United States

ISBN

9780804753579

SKU

V9780804753579

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99-15

About Gerald McKevitt

Gerald McKevitt is Ignacio Ellacuría 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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"This is an essential book for Pacific Northwest historians." "A major study that will shape the next generation of scholarship in Western and religious history."
John McGreevy
America
"This is a fascinating study about the work of Italian Jesuits in the western part of the United States in the seventy or so years following the European revolutions ... Read moreof 1848 McKevitt proves himself an exceptional scholar by concretizing the threefold task of the historian in finding the sources, evaluating the sources, and writing his own history in this, his latest work."
Archivum Historicum "This work has been widely researched in American and European archives. It is clearly organized and well written, and it will be read with profit by historians of culture, of immigration, of American Catholicism, of Native Americans, and of the American West."
Western Historical Quarterly "McKevitt's is an exemplary work of historical scholarship a wonderful example of mature American Catholic historical scholarship."
David O'Brien
Theological Studies
"Brokers of Culture is a magisterial treatment that will attract a great deal of attention."
James Carroll
Pacific Historical Review
"McKevitt rescues from an undeserved oblivion those who never made it back to their homelands."
California History "[Brokers of Culture] provides detailed accounts of the Jesuit educational initiatives among both Native American and Hispanic populations, and it carefully traces how the Jesuit' missionary work was molded by shifts in U.S. Indian policy. It is a significant contribution to what has been termed the 'new western history' and its commitment to the study of previously neglected or undervalued groups and individuals."
Journal of American History "Brokers of Culture is a wonderful example of mature American Catholic historical scholarship. Always fully informed and scrupulously fair, McKevitt admires his Jesuit subjects but offers well-argued criticism when appropriate. He has a wonderful story, he tells it well, and he has enriched our understanding of American Catholic history."
Theological Studies "In Brokers of Culture, Gerald McKevitt provides a comprehensive, engaging, and beautifully written account of the expansive and overlooked role played by Italian Jesuits in the American WestThe richness of McKevitt's text, research, and analysis offers an outstanding contribution to the growing literature on missions in the Americas and places this work into the broader context of the history of the American West."
Southern California Quarterly "The role of Italian Jesuits in the spiritual, intellectual, and scientific growth of the nineteenth century American West may come as a surprise, but Father McKevitt provides a readable approach to an intriguing chapter in American history."
Michael P. Morris
First Things
"Brokers of Culture is superb, a major study that will shape the next generation of scholarship in Western and religious history."
America Magazine "McKevitt is the most knowledgeable historian of Jesuit activity in the nineteenth-century trans-Mississippi West... Remarkable book."
Oregon Historical Quarterly "Brokers of Culture is a masterpiece that closes a gap in our understanding of American Catholic and Jesuit history. In these pages, Gerald McKevitt models the ideal of eloquentia perfecta—articulate wisdom—that his historical subjects journeyed so far to represent."
Conversations in Jesuit Higher Education "With its attention to individual stories and international connections, Brokers of Culture will be most useful to scholars of Catholic—especially Jesuit—history and missiology. In fleshing out and bringing together the story of the Jesuits in multiple Western regions, it will also be a valuable reference for students of religion in the American West more broadly."
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