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Brokers of Culture: Italian Jesuits in the American West, 1848-1919

Brokers of Culture: Italian Jesuits in the American West, 1848-1919

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19th Century United States HistoryGeneral EducationGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0804772002
ISBN13: 9780804772006
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Jan 13 2010
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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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