Diaspora in the Countryside: Two Mennonite Communities and Mid-Twentieth-Century Rural Disjuncture (Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Centennial Series) - Softcover

Loewen, Royden

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252074254 ISBN 13: 9780252074257

Verlag: University of Illinois Press, 2006

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Book by Loewen Royden K

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"A rich cultural history that tells a compelling story of how change came to southern Manitoba Mennonites in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s."--"Great Plains Quarterly" "A rich cultural history that tells a compelling story of how change came to southern Manitoba Mennonites in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s."--"Great Plains Quarterly"

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From the 1930s to the 1980s, the North American countryside faced a profound cultural transformation as rural society became fragmented and dispersed. Nowhere was this more true than among close-knit, ethno-religious communities such as the Mennonites. Farm families were required to accept new levels of automation and science, while those unwilling or unable to make these changes migrated to nearby towns or regional cities. Some escaped the transformation in new isolated rural places. These relocations and the cultural reformulation that resulted saw the emergence of an extraordinary diaspora of rural people. In "Diaspora in the Countryside", Royden Loewen examines the phenomenon of rural fragmentation by contrasting two closely related but geographically distant Low German Mennonite communities in Kansas and Manitoba. He systematically compares their responses to the "Great Disjuncture," as well as the changes undergone by their farm families versus those of their kin in the nearby towns and the cities of Denver and Winnipeg, and a conservative group that moved to rural British Honduras.

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• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0252074254
• ISBN 13: 9780252074257
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 264