Hidden Worlds: Revisiting the Mennonite Migrants of the 1870s

by Royden Loewen

Book Overview

In the 1870s, approximately 18,000 Mennonites migrated from the southern steppes of Imperial Russia (present-day Ukraine) to the North American grasslands. They brought with them an array of cultural and institutional features that indicated they were a "transplanted" people. What is less frequently noted, however, is that they created in their everyday lives a world that ensured their cultural longevity and social cohesiveness in a new land. Their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887556558
• ISBN13: 9780887556555
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.1" x 9.0"