Family, Church, and Market: A Mennonite Community in the Old and the New Worlds, 1850-1930

In 1874, a group of nine hundred Mennonites migrated from Russia to the western plains of Canada and the United States, settling in and around Steinbach, Manitoba, and Jansen, Nebraska. This social hsitory shows how these conservative, German-speaking farm families adapted to an increasingly urbaniz...

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Beteilige Person: Loewen, Royden (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Toronto University of Toronto Press [2019]
Schriftenreihe:Heritage
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Links:https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487576363
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487576363
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487576363
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487576363
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487576363
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487576363
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487576363
https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487576363
Zusammenfassung:In 1874, a group of nine hundred Mennonites migrated from Russia to the western plains of Canada and the United States, settling in and around Steinbach, Manitoba, and Jansen, Nebraska. This social hsitory shows how these conservative, German-speaking farm families adapted to an increasingly urbanized and industrialized world. Royden Loewen examines how the men and women of this immigrant group decised strategies to maintain familiar social structures and cultural patters within a changing society. Because these Mennonites were highly literate, leaving a rich array of diaries, letters, and memoirs, their everyday lives and ethnic self-perceptions can be reconstituted in detail. Loewen's account tells of three generations of Mennonites for whom the farm family was the primary social unit. The sectarian, lay-oriented church congregation interpreted life's meaning and enforced strict social boundaries on the community level. These traditionalist were coupled with a sensitive adaptation to the market economy of the outside world
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)
Umfang:1 online resource (398 pages)
ISBN:9781487576363
DOI:10.3138/9781487576363