Village Among Nations : "Canadian" Mennonites in a Transnational World, 1916-2006 /
Loewen, Royden
Village Among Nations : "Canadian" Mennonites in a Transnational World, 1916-2006 / Royden Loewen. - 1 online resource (340 p.) : 7 maps
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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 Honduras, Bolivia, and elsewhere in Latin America. Despite this dispersion, these Canadian-descendant Mennonites, who now number around 250,000, developed a rich transnational culture over the years, resisting allegiance to any one nation and cultivating a strong sense of common peoplehood based on a history of migration, nonviolence, and distinct language and dress.Village among Nations recuperates a missing chapter of Canadian history: the story of these Mennonites who emigrated from Canada for cultural reasons, but then in later generations "returned" in large numbers for economic and social security. Royden Loewen analyzes a wide variety of texts, by men and women - letters, memoirs, reflections on family debates on land settlement, exchanges with curious outsiders, and deliberations on issues of citizenship. They relate the untold experience of this uniquely transnational, ethno-religious community.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781442614673 9781442666726
10.3138/9781442666726 doi
HISTORY / Canada / General.
289.7/710904
Village Among Nations : "Canadian" Mennonites in a Transnational World, 1916-2006 / Royden Loewen. - 1 online resource (340 p.) : 7 maps
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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 Honduras, Bolivia, and elsewhere in Latin America. Despite this dispersion, these Canadian-descendant Mennonites, who now number around 250,000, developed a rich transnational culture over the years, resisting allegiance to any one nation and cultivating a strong sense of common peoplehood based on a history of migration, nonviolence, and distinct language and dress.Village among Nations recuperates a missing chapter of Canadian history: the story of these Mennonites who emigrated from Canada for cultural reasons, but then in later generations "returned" in large numbers for economic and social security. Royden Loewen analyzes a wide variety of texts, by men and women - letters, memoirs, reflections on family debates on land settlement, exchanges with curious outsiders, and deliberations on issues of citizenship. They relate the untold experience of this uniquely transnational, ethno-religious community.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781442614673 9781442666726
10.3138/9781442666726 doi
HISTORY / Canada / General.
289.7/710904