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Village Among Nations : "Canadian" Mennonites in a Transnational World, 1916-2006 /

Between the 1920s and the 1940s, 10,000 traditionalist Mennonites emigrated from western Canada to isolated rural sections of Northern Mexico and the Paraguayan Chaco; over the course of the twentieth century, they became increasingly scattered through secondary migrations to East Paraguay, British...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Loewen, Royden (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Maps
  • Introduction
  • 1. Leaving the "British Empire" in Canada: Promises in the South, 1916-1921
  • 2. Drawing Lines on God's Earth: Settlers in Mexico and Paraguay, 1922-1929
  • 3. Dreaming of "Old" Canada: Nostalgia in the Diaspora, 1930-1945
  • 4. Rethinking Time and Space: East Paraguay and Beyond, 1945-1954
  • 5. Meeting the Outside Gaze: New Life in British Honduras and Bolivia, 1954-1972
  • 6. Crystallizing Memory: The "Return" of the Kanadier, 1951-1979
  • 7. Imagining a Pan-American Village: Reading Die Mennonitische Post , 1977-1996
  • 8. Homing in on the Transnational World: Women Migrants in Ontario, 1985-2006
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index