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Nature and the environment in Amish life / David L. McConnell and Marilyn D. Loveless.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Young Center books in Anabaptist & Pietist studiesPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781421426174
  • 142142617X
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Nature and the environment in Amish life.DDC classification:
  • 261.8/808828973 23
LOC classification:
  • GF80 .M373 2018eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Deciphering the Amish relationship with nature -- Part I: Growing up rural -- Raising children at nature's doorstep -- The Amish ecological footprint -- Part II: Working with nature -- The transformation of Amish agriculture -- The forest for the trees : the wood-products industry -- Tinkering with creation: alternative animal breeding -- Part III: Reconfiguring leisure and the outdoors -- Bringing nature home : from gardening to herbal and natural medicines -- Fin, fur, and feather : nature-based recreation -- Observing and writing nature : Amish as travelers and authors -- Part IV: The Amish as enviromentalists -- Acting locally : Amish responses to regional environmental issues -- Thinking globally : the Amish ecological imagination -- Parochial stewards : the Amish encounter with nature and the environment.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Deciphering the Amish relationship with nature -- Part I: Growing up rural -- Raising children at nature's doorstep -- The Amish ecological footprint -- Part II: Working with nature -- The transformation of Amish agriculture -- The forest for the trees : the wood-products industry -- Tinkering with creation: alternative animal breeding -- Part III: Reconfiguring leisure and the outdoors -- Bringing nature home : from gardening to herbal and natural medicines -- Fin, fur, and feather : nature-based recreation -- Observing and writing nature : Amish as travelers and authors -- Part IV: The Amish as enviromentalists -- Acting locally : Amish responses to regional environmental issues -- Thinking globally : the Amish ecological imagination -- Parochial stewards : the Amish encounter with nature and the environment.

Print version record.