"This book began as the Menno Simons lectures at Bethel College, Kansas ... given in November 1999"--[ix].
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Wonders and drudgery : the diaries of Mennonite migrants, 1857-1879 -- 'If joint heirs of grace, how much more of temporal goods?' : Inheritance and community formation -- Potato patch in a cornfield : the worlds of Mennonite immigrant women, 1881-1906 -- Mr. Plett and Mr. Bergey : Land and social practice in two Canadian Mennonite communities, 1890s -- Neighbors : Mennonites and other rural folks in the American Midwest -- Conclusion.
Summary
"This book's aim is to interpret the past ... to discover from the lives of ordinary migrants the process by which cultures were created in new worlds. Knowing this process means knowing a central feature of the Mennonite migration of the 1870s."--Page 8.
