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Brokers of Culture: Italian Jesuits in the American West, 1848–1919. By Gerald McKevitt. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006. xviii + 428 pp. Illustrations, glossary, notes, index. $60.00.)

      Jesuits have been called many names over the last five centuries, but probably not often "brokers of culture." But Brokers of Culture: Italian Jesuits in the American West, 1848–1919 is an accurate title for this scholarly study. 1
      The Jesuits were expelled from Italy during the nationalistic uprisings of the nineteenth century, and almost four hundred fled to the United States between 1848 and 1919. Most settled first on the eastern seaboard in established Jesuit colleges—Georgetown, Holy Cross, and Boston College—and then gradually migrated west, some to Montana, Washington, and Oregon, others to Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, and a third group to California. In each location they ministered to Native Americans, established parishes, preached retreats, and eventually founded colleges—Seattle, Gonzaga, Regis, Santa Clara, and San Francisco. . . .

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