Shipshewana : An Indiana Amish Community /

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While most books about the Amish focus on the Pennsylvania settlements or on the religious history of the sect, this book is a cultural history of one Indiana Amish community and its success in resisting assimilation into the larger culture. Amish culture has persisted relatively unchanged primarily...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Pratt, Dorothy O., 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, IN : Quarry Books, 2004.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Amish > Social conditions.
Amish.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Amish > Indiana > LaGrange County > Social conditions.
Amish > Indiana > LaGrange County > History.
Amish > Indiana > Shipshewana > Social conditions.
Amish > Indiana > Shipshewana > History.
Indiana > Shipshewana.
Indiana > LaGrange County.
LaGrange County (Ind.) > History.
Shipshewana (Ind.) > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The LaGrange County settlement
  • Creating cultural fencing
  • The draft and the First World War
  • The Indiana Councils of Defense and the Amish
  • Modernization and the school issue
  • The Great Depression
  • Civilian public service
  • The home front in the Second World War
  • Gaining control, 1946-1975
  • Conclusion.

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