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
Stanford University Press, 2007
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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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Contents @toc4:List of Illustrations xxx Preface xxx @toc2:1. Introduction: The Jesuits 1 2. "Out with the Jesuits": Becoming Refugees 000 3. "Instant Despatch": The Ideology of Emigration 000 4. "Witnesses to Shortcomings": Reforming Jesuit America 000 5. "Attracted Toward Remote Lands": Becoming Western Missionaries 000 6. "Methods Adopted by Us": The Art of Indian Conversion 000 7. "Habits of Industry and Useful Toil": Native American Education 000 8. "The Darkest Part of the U.S.A.": The Southwest 000 9. "Who Could Have Done Anything like This in Italy?": The Colleges 000 10. "Our Pen Is at Your Service": Mediating Cultures 000 11. "A Delicate State of Transition": Jesuits Divided 000 12. "Sic Transit Gloria Mundi": Foreign No More 000 13. Conclusion 000 @toc4:Abbreviations 000 Notes 000 Glossary 000 Index 000
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