Life at Four Corners: Religion, Gender, and Education in a German-Lutheran Community, 1868-1945 (Rural America)

By Carol K. Coburn

Book Overview

Examines the institutions and experiences that kept a small ethnic community unassimilated in Kansas for 80 years before succumbing to the outside world in the 1930s and 1940s. Focuses on how religion, ethnicity, and gender were used to educate children to the culture, and how many of those very ele

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700605576
• ISBN13: 9780700605576
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.8" x 6.5"