Gretna Window On The Northwest
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Gretna Window On The Northwest
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Author : Francis Gerhard Enns
language : en
Publisher: Gretna, Man. : Village of Gretna History Committee
Release Date : 1987
Gretna Window On The Northwest written by Francis Gerhard Enns and has been published by Gretna, Man. : Village of Gretna History Committee this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Gretna (Man.) categories.
Mennonites Politics And Peoplehood
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Author : James Urry
language : en
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
Release Date : 2011-07-15
Mennonites Politics And Peoplehood written by James Urry and has been published by Univ. of Manitoba Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-15 with Religion categories.
Mennonites and their forebears are usually thought to be a people with little interest or involvement in politics. Mennonites, Politics, and Peoplehood reveals that since their early history, Mennonites have, in fact, been active participants in worldly politics. From western to eastern Europe and through different migrations to North America, James Urry’s meticulous research traces Mennonite links with kingdoms, empires, republics, and democratic nations in the context of peace, war, and revolution. He stresses a degree of Mennonite involvement in politics not previously discussed in literature, including Mennonite participation in constitutional reform and party politics, and shows the polarization of their political views from conservatism to liberalism and even revolutionary activities. Urry looks at the Mennonite reaction to politics and political events from the Reformation onwards and focusses particularly on those people who settled in Russia and their descendants who came to Manitoba. Using a wide variety of sources, Mennonites, Politics, and Peoplehood combines an inter-disciplinary approach to reveal that Mennonites, far from being the “Quiet in the Land,” have deep roots in politics.
From The Inside Out
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Author : Royden Loewen
language : en
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
Release Date : 1999-10-12
From The Inside Out written by Royden Loewen and has been published by Univ. of Manitoba Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-10-12 with History categories.
Historian Royden Loewen has brought together selections from diaries kept by 21 Mennonites in Canada between 1863 and 1929, some translated from German for the first time. By skillfully comparing and contrasting a wide cross-section of lives, Loewen shows how these diaries often turn the hidden contours of household and community "inside out." The writers featured were ordinary rural people: young women and grandmothers, rural preachers and landless householders. They include a teenaged boy who immigrated from Russia to Manitoba in 1875 as well as a successful merchant, a traveling evangelist, and a devout, conservative church elder. An elderly grandfather recounted the daily circuit of his children's homes, while 19-year-old Marie Schoeder wrote of her literary aspirations, her "secret hope" that some day she would "write things that have a real worth, things that are worth printing, and things that other folks would love to read and pay for." From the Inside Out also contrasts diaries from two distinct Mennonite communities in Canada. The Swiss-American Mennonites in Waterloo County, Ontario, faced rapid urbanization, while the Dutch-Russian Mennonites in southern Manitoba maintained their more rural environment. The diaries mirror their writers' preoccupations with work and weather, but they also reveal a communityís social structure and round of activities such as weddings, funerals, and worship services. In the process of diary-keeping, the writers sought to make sense of a dynamic and often unpredictable world. Reading what they chose to record is to learn much about their culture. Their writings provide glimpses of their lives, their collective mindset, and their history as a people.
Mennonite Farmers
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Author : Royden Loewen
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2021-11-02
Mennonite Farmers written by Royden Loewen and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-02 with Religion categories.
A comparative global history of Mennonites from the ground up. Winner of the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize by the Canadian Historical Association, Nominee of the Margaret McWilliams Award by the Manitoba Historical Society Mennonite farmers can be found in dozens of countries spanning five continents. In this comparative world-scale environmental history, Royden Loewen draws on a multi-year study of seven geographically distinctive Anabaptist communities around the world, focusing on Mennonite farmers in Bolivia, Canada, Indonesia, the Netherlands, Russia, the United States, and Zimbabwe. These farmers, who include Amish, Brethren in Christ, and Siberian Baptists, till the land in starkly distinctive climates. They absorb very disparate societal lessons while being shaped by particular faith outlooks, historical memory, and the natural environment. The book reveals the ways in which modern-day Mennonite farmers have adjusted to diverse temperatures, precipitation, soil types, and relative degrees of climate change. These farmers have faced broad global forces of modernization during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, from commodity markets and intrusive governments to technologies marked increasingly by the mechanical, chemical, and genetic. Based on more than 150 interviews and close textual analysis of memoirs, newspapers, and sermons, the narrative follows, among others, Zandile Nyandeni of Matopo as she hoes the spring-fed soils of Matabeleland's semi-arid savannah; Vladimir Friesen of Apollonovka, Siberia, who no longer heeds the dictates of industrial time of the Soviet-era state farm; and Abram Enns of Riva Palacio, Bolivia, who tells how he, a horse-and-buggy traditionalist, hired bulldozers to clear-cut a farm in the eastern lowland forests to grow soybeans, initially leading to dust bowl conditions. As Mennonites, Loewen writes, these farmers were raised with knowledge of the historic Anabaptist teachings on community, simplicity, and peace that stood alongside ideas on place and sustainability. Nonetheless, conditioned by gender, class, ethnicity, race, and local values, they put their agricultural ideas into practice in remarkably diverse ways. Mennonite Farmers is a pioneering work that brings faith into conversation with the land in distinctive ways.
From Gretna Green To Land S End A Literary Journey In England
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Author : Katharine Lee Bates
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-09-15
From Gretna Green To Land S End A Literary Journey In England written by Katharine Lee Bates and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-15 with Travel categories.
"From Gretna Green to Land's End" is an early work on England's literary tourism, giving a good insight into the famous places and their significance. Published in 1907, it is written in the form of a personal travelogue. The writer provides beautiful descriptions of the locations and entertains the readers with some unknown facts.
From Gretna Green To Land S End
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Author : Katharine Lee Bates
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2020-08-01
From Gretna Green To Land S End written by Katharine Lee Bates and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-01 with Fiction categories.
Reproduction of the original: From Gretna Green to Land’s End by Katharine Lee Bates
Church Family And Village
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Author : Adolf Ens
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Church Family And Village written by Adolf Ens and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
A Female Economy
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Author : Mary Kinnear
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 1998
A Female Economy written by Mary Kinnear and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Business & Economics categories.
Kinnear (history, U. of Manitoba) analyzes women's work in Manitoba from 1870 to 1970 and shows it was, in every domain, undervalued. She describes how early pioneers, East European immigrants, and professional women lived, and provides insight into what they thought of the work world, often in their own words. Canadian card order number: C98-900861-4Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
In Subordination
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Author : Mary Kinnear
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 1995
In Subordination written by Mary Kinnear and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Sex discrimination in employment categories.
Kinnear presents case studies of women in five professions - university teachers, physicians, lawyers, nurses, and schoolteachers - in Manitoba. She shows that all five professions had three characteristics in common: unequal pay, lack of control by women, and the belief that marriage and the professions were not compatible.
Cultivating Connections
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Author : Alison Marshall
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 2014-06-18
Cultivating Connections written by Alison Marshall and has been published by UBC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-18 with Social Science categories.
In the late 1870s, thousands of Chinese men left coastal British Columbia and the western United States and headed east. For them, the Prairies were a land of opportunity; there, they could open shops and potentially earn enough money to become merchants. The result of almost a decade's research and more than three hundred interviews, Cultivating Connections tells the stories of some of Prairie Canada's Chinese settlers - men and women from various generations who navigated cultural difference. These stories reveal the critical importance of networks in coping with experiences of racism and establishing a successful life on the Prairies.