| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.2

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Brokers of Culture: Italian Jesuits in the American West, 1848–1919. By Gerald McKevitt. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. xx, 428 pp. $60.00, ISBN 978-0-8047-5357-9.)

The banishments endured by the nineteenth-century Society of Jesus often yielded unexpected opportunities: as priests and brothers were ejected from one country, they were obliged to take up evangelical and educational ministries in another. In the Risorgimento era, Italian Jesuits repeatedly came under fire, and Gerald McKevitt's well-researched book explores how some of them fared during their enforced exile in the United States. After a brief summary of the experiences of Roman Jesuits who sojourned on the East Coast in the wake of 1848, McKevitt homes in on two dynamic elements in the Jesuit diaspora: Piedmontese Jesuits who ministered among the Native American peoples of the Pacific Northwest from 1854, and their Neapolitan confreres who, from 1867, had a significant impact on the Hispanic population of Colorado and New Mexico.

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