Loewen Village Among Nations

"Canadian" Mennonites in a Transnational World, 1916-2006
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-4426-6672-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Wasserzeichen (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 340 Seiten

Village among Nations recuperates a missing chapter of Canadian history: the story of traditionalist Mennonites who emigrated from Canada for cultural reasons, but then in later generations “returned” in large numbers for economic and social security.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Loewen, Royden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PrefaceAcknowlegementsIntroductionCh 1: Leaving the ‘British Empire’ in Canada: Promises in the South, 1916-1921Ch 2. Drawing Lines on God’s Earth: Settlers in Mexico and Paraguay, 1922-1929Ch 3: Dreaming of ‘Old Canada’: Nostalgia in the Diaspora, 1930-1945Ch 4: Rethinking Time and Space: East Paraguay and Beyond: 1945-1954Ch 5: Meeting the Outside Gaze: New Life in British Honduras and Bolivia, 1954-1972Ch 6: Crystallizing Memory: The Return of the ‘Kanadier’, 1951-1979Ch 7: Imagining a Pan-American Village: Reading Die Mennonitische Post, 1977-1996Ch 8: Homing in on the Transnational Village: Women Migrants in Ontario, 1985-2006ConclusionBibliography

Über Autor(innen)

LoewenRoyden:
Royden Loewen is the Chair in Mennonite Studies and a professor in the Department of History at the University of Winnipeg. He is an award-winning author of a number of books on Mennonites and immigrants in North America.