Diaspora in the Countryside: Two Mennonite Communities and Mid-Twentieth-Century Rural Disjuncture

by Royden Loewen

From the 1930s to the 1980s, the North American countryside faced a profound cultural transformation as rural society became fragmented and dispersed. Nowhere was this more true than among close-knit, ethnoreligious communities such as the Mennonites. Farm families were required to accept new levels of automation and science, while those unwilling or unable to make these changes migrated to nearby towns or regional cities. Some escaped the transformation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252074254
• ISBN13: 9780252074257
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"