Brokers of culture : Italian Jesuits in the American West, 1848-1919 / Gerald McKevitt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McKevitt, Gerald.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jesuits--Missions--United States--History.

Jesuits.

Jesuits--West (U.S.)--History.

Jesuits--Italy--History.

History.

Missions.

Italy.

United States.

Physical Description:

xviii, 428 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1 Introduction: The Jesuits 1

2 "Out with the Jesuits": Becoming Refugees 14

3 "Instant Despatch": The Ideology of Emigration 36

4 "Witnesses to Shortcomings": Reforming Jesuit America 61

5 "Attracted Toward Remote Lands": Becoming Western Missionaries 91

6 "Methods Adopted by Us": The Art of Indian Conversion 120

7 "Habits of Industry and Useful Toil": Native American Education 150

8 "The Darkest Part of the U.S.A.": The Southwest 178

9 "Who Could Have Done Anything Like This in Italy?": The Colleges 208

10 "Our Pen Is at Your Service": Mediating Cultures 234

11 "A Delicate State of Transition": Jesuits Divided 264

12 "Sic Transit Gloria Mundi": Foreign No More 296.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-394) and index.

ISBN:

0804753571

OCLC:

70129096

Publisher Number:

9780804753579