Village Among Nations : : "Canadian" Mennonites in a Transnational World, 1916-2006 / / Royden Loewen.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (340 p.) :; 7 maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Maps
- Introduction
- 1. Leaving the "British Empire" in Canada: Promises in the South, 1916-1921
- 2. Drawing Lines on God's Earth: Settlers in Mexico and Paraguay, 1922-1929
- 3. Dreaming of "Old" Canada: Nostalgia in the Diaspora, 1930-1945
- 4. Rethinking Time and Space: East Paraguay and Beyond, 1945-1954
- 5. Meeting the Outside Gaze: New Life in British Honduras and Bolivia, 1954-1972
- 6. Crystallizing Memory: The "Return" of the Kanadier, 1951-1979
- 7. Imagining a Pan-American Village: Reading Die Mennonitische Post , 1977-1996
- 8. Homing in on the Transnational World: Women Migrants in Ontario, 1985-2006
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index