Diaspora in the Countryside: Two Mennonite Communities And Mid-twentieth Century Rural Disjuncture - Couverture souple

Loewen, Royden

 
9780802094186: Diaspora in the Countryside: Two Mennonite Communities And Mid-twentieth Century Rural Disjuncture
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ISBN 10 : 080209418X ISBN 13 : 9780802094186
Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2006

Synopsis

From the 1930s to the 1980s, the North American countryside faced a profound cultural transformation in which a once-unified rural society became fragmented and dispersed. Families wishing to remain on the farm were required to accept new levels of automation, while others, unwilling or unable to make the change, migrated to nearby towns or regional cities. The cultural reformulation that resulted saw the emergence of a genuine rural diaspora. The growing cultural and physical separation was especially true for close-knit, ethno-religious communities, Mennonites, in particular. Forced into regional cities, the kaleidoscopic urban culture further fragmented the Mennonites into disparate social entities.

In Diaspora in the Countryside, the phenomena of rural fragmentation is examined by comparing and contrasting two closely-related but distinctive Dutch-Russian Mennonite communities located in different parts of the continent: Kansas and Manitoba, respectively. By systematically comparing these communities, two distinctive responses to the mid-twentieth century 'Great Disjuncture' are made apparent. Royden Loewen also contrasts the cultural changes of these farm families to the cultures their kin adopted in nearby towns and cities. Loewen charts not only the dispersion of two rural communities, but follows their former residents as they reformulate their lives in new settings.

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À propos de l'auteur

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.

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Éditeur
University of Toronto Press
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
080209418X
ISBN 13 
9780802094186
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
336
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780252074257: Diaspora in the Countryside: Two Menonite Communities and Mid-Twentieth-Century Rural Disjuncture

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ISBN 10 :  0252074254 ISBN 13 :  9780252074257
Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2006
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