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Diaspora in the countryside : two Mennonite communities and mid-twentieth-century rural disjuncture /
From the 1930s to the 1980s, the North American countryside faced a profound cultural transformation in which a once-unified rural society became fragmented and dispersed. Families wishing to remain on the farm were required to accept new levels of automation, while others, unwilling or unable to ma...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto [Ontario] ; Buffalo [New York] :
University of Toronto Press,
[2006]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- The great disjuncture and ethnic farmers: life in two corners of a transnational grassland
- Snowdrift and dust bowl: the environment and cultural change
- 'hold your heads high in your usual unassuming manner': making a Mennonite middle class
- Joy and evangelicalism: rediscovering faith in Kansas
- Beyond shunning: reconfiguring the old Manitoba bruderschaft
- The rise and fall of the cheerful homemaker: womanhood in Kansas
- Poultrymen, car dealers, and football stars: masculinities in Manitoba
- Reinventing Mennonite tradition: old ways in the jungles of British Honduras
- Fragmented freedoms: studies of Mennonites in Winnipeg and Denver
- Conclusion.