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Author Loewen, Royden, 1954-

Title Diaspora in the countryside : two Mennonite communities and mid-twentieth-century rural disjuncture / Royden Loewen.

Imprint Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2006.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  973.91088 L825d 2006    ---  Available
Description xv, 331 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Series Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island centennial series
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-316) and index.
Contents The great disjuncture of ethnic farmers : life in two corners of a transnational grassland -- Snowdrift and Dust Bowl : the environment and cultural change -- 'Hold your heads high in your usual unassuming manner' : making a Mennonite middle class -- Joy and evangelicalism : rediscovering faith in Kansas -- Beyond shunning : reconfiguring the Old Manitoba Bruderschaft -- The rise and fall of the cheerful homemaker : womanhood in Kansas -- Poultrymen, car dealers, and football stars : masculinities in Manitoba -- Reinventing Mennonite tradition : old ways in the jungles of British Honduras -- Fragmented freedoms : studies of Mennonites in Winnipeg and Denver.
Subject Mennonites -- Manitoba -- Hanover -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Mennonites -- Kansas -- Meade County -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Rural-urban migration -- Manitoba -- Hanover -- History -- 20th century.
Rural-urban migration -- Kansas -- Meade County -- History -- 20th century.
Hanover (Man.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Meade County (Kan.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
ISBN 0252074254 (paper)
9780252074257 (paper)
9780252031786 (cloth : acid-free paper)
0252031784 (cloth : acid-free paper)
Standard No. YDXCP 2417526
YDXCP 2417528
NZ1 11024927
NLC 20080122078

 
    
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