{"product_id":"brokers-of-culture-9780804772006","title":"Brokers of Culture","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrokers of Culture\u003c\/i\u003e analyzes how Italian Jesuit missionary \u003ci\u003eémigrés\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is an essential book for Pacific Northwest historians.\"\u003cbr\u003e\"A major study that will shape the next generation of scholarship in Western and religious history.\" -- John McGreevy * \u003ci\u003eAmerica\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"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 of 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.\" -- \u003ci\u003eArchivum Historicum \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\" -- \u003ci\u003eWestern Historical Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"McKevitt's is an exemplary work of historical scholarship a wonderful example of mature American Catholic historical scholarship.\" -- David O'Brien * \u003ci\u003eTheological Studies\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBrokers of Culture\u003c\/i\u003e is a magisterial treatment that will attract a great deal of attention.\" -- James Carroll * \u003ci\u003ePacific Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"McKevitt rescues from an undeserved oblivion those who never made it back to their homelands.\" -- \u003ci\u003eCalifornia History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eBrokers of Culture\u003c\/i\u003e] 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.\" -- \u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBrokers of Culture\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" -- \u003ci\u003eTheological Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eBrokers of Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\" -- \u003ci\u003eSouthern California Quarterly\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 * \u003ci\u003eFirst Things\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBrokers of Culture\u003c\/i\u003e is superb, a major study that will shape the next generation of scholarship in Western and religious history.\" -- \u003ci\u003eAmerica Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"McKevitt is the most knowledgeable historian of Jesuit activity in the nineteenth-century trans-Mississippi West... Remarkable book.\" -- \u003ci\u003eOregon Historical Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBrokers of Culture\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eeloquentia perfecta\u003c\/i\u003e—articulate wisdom—that his historical subjects journeyed so far to represent.\" -- \u003ci\u003eConversations in Jesuit Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With its attention to individual stories and international connections, \u003ci\u003eBrokers of Culture\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" -- \u003ci\u003eChurch History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  @toc4:List of Illustrations\txxx  Preface\txxx  @toc2:1. Introduction: The Jesuits\t1  2. \"Out with the Jesuits\": Becoming Refugees\t000  3. \"Instant Despatch\": The Ideology of Emigration\t000  4. \"Witnesses to Shortcomings\": Reforming Jesuit America\t000  5. \"Attracted Toward Remote Lands\": Becoming Western   Missionaries\t000  6. \"Methods Adopted by Us\": The Art of Indian Conversion\t000  7. \"Habits of Industry and Useful Toil\": Native American   Education\t000  8. \"The Darkest Part of the U.S.A.\": The Southwest\t000  9. \"Who Could Have Done Anything like This in Italy?\": The   Colleges\t000  10. \"Our Pen Is at Your Service\": Mediating Cultures\t000  11. \"A Delicate State of Transition\": Jesuits Divided\t000  12. \"Sic Transit Gloria Mundi\": Foreign No More\t000  13. Conclusion\t000  @toc4:Abbreviations\t000  Notes\t000  Glossary\t000  Index\t000\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405590470999,"sku":"9780804772006","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804772006.jpg?v=1730492934","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/brokers-of-culture-9780804772006","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}