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Author Loewen, Royden, 1954-

Title Hidden worlds : revisiting the Mennonite migrants of the 1870s / Royden Loewen.

Imprint North Newton, Kan. : Bethel College, ©2001.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  305.687 L825h 2001    ---  Lib Use Only
Description x, 139 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Series Cornelius H. Wedel historical series ; 12
Cornelius H. Wedel historical series ; 12.
Note "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.
Subject Mennonites -- Middle West -- Social life and customs.
Mennonites -- Prairie Provinces -- Social life and customs.
Immigrants -- Middle West.
Immigrants -- Prairie Provinces.
Mennonites -- Russia.
Mennonites -- North America.
Immigrants. (OCoLC)fst00967712
Mennonites. (OCoLC)fst01016181
Mennonites -- Social life and customs. (OCoLC)fst01016224
Middle West. (OCoLC)fst01240052
North America. (OCoLC)fst01242475
Prairie Provinces. (OCoLC)fst01246004
Russia. (OCoLC)fst01207312
ISBN 1889239011
9781889239019
0889239010

 
    
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