Village Among Nations: Canadian Mennonites in a Transnational World, 1916-2006 Contributor(s): Loewen, Royden (Author) |
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ISBN: 1442614676 ISBN-13: 9781442614673 Publisher: University of Toronto Press OUR PRICE: $43.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Canada - General - Religion | Christianity - Mennonite - History | Latin America - Mexico |
Dewey: 289.7 |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 9" (1.15 lbs) 340 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian - Religious Orientation - Christian - Cultural Region - Latin America - Cultural Region - Mexican |
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Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Loewen, Royden: - 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. |