Village Among Nations : "Canadian" Mennonites in a Transnational World, 1916-2006 Paperback / softback
by Royden Loewen
Paperback / softback
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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.
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- Pages:340 pages, 7 maps
- Publisher:University of Toronto Press
- Publication Date:21/10/2013
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- ISBN:9781442614673
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:340 pages, 7 maps
- Publisher:University of Toronto Press
- Publication Date:21/10/2013
- Category:
- ISBN:9781442614673
