The Old German Baptist Brethren : Faith, Farming, and Change in the Virginia Blue Ridge /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thompson, Charles D., Jr. (Charles Dillard), 1956-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, [2006]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Old German Baptist Brethren
Old German Baptist Brethren > Virginia > Franklin County > Interviews.
Old German Baptist Brethren > Virginia > Franklin County > History.
Manners and customs
German Americans > Social life and customs
German Americans
Farm life
RELIGION > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Farm life > Virginia > Franklin County.
German Americans > Virginia > Franklin County > Interviews.
German Americans > Virginia > Franklin County > Social life and customs.
Brethren (Brethren churches) > Virginia > Franklin County > Social life and customs.
German Americans > Virginia > Franklin County > History.
Virginia > Franklin County
Franklin County (Va.) > Religious life and customs.
Franklin County (Va.) > Social life and customs.
Franklin County (Va.) > History.
Interviews
History
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Nonresistance and change
  • Part I : saints in the wilderness
  • The ancient order
  • The Carolina Road
  • Part II : wilderness no more
  • Raising citizens
  • Community-based agriculture
  • Adversity and perseverance
  • Membership
  • Hope
  • Epilogue : they go quietly.

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