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Brokers of Culture
Gerald McKevitt
其他書名
Italian Jesuits in the American West, 1848-1919
出版Stanford University Press, 2007
主題History / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)History / United States / 19th CenturyHistory / Social HistoryReligion / Christianity / History
ISBN08047535719780804753579
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=u4FYX4Rzd9cC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.