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Village among nations : "Canadian" Mennonites in a transnational world, 1916-2006 / Royden Loewen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto [Ontario] : University of Toronto Press, 2013Distributor: Toronto, Ontario : Scholars Portal, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • electronic
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442666726
  • 1442666722
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 289.7/710904 23
LOC classification:
  • BX8118.5 .L65 2013eb
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Contents:
Leaving the "British Empire" in Canada: promises in the South, 1916-1921 -- Drawing lines on God's earth: settlers in Mexico and Paraguay, 1922-1929 -- Dreaming of "Old" Canada: nostalgia in the diaspora, 1930-1945 -- Rethinking time and space: East Paraguay and beyond, 1945-1954 -- Meeting the outside gaze: new life in British Honduras and Bolivia, 1954-1972 -- Crystallizing memory: the "return" of the Kanadier, 1951-1979 -- Imagining a Pan-American village: reading Die Mennonitische Post, 1977-1996 -- Homing in on the transnational world: women migrants in Ontario, 1985-2006.
Summary: Village among Nations recuperates a missing chapter of Canadian history: the story of traditionalist Mennonites who emigrated from Canada for cultural reasons, but then in later generations "returned" in large numbers for economic and social security.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Leaving the "British Empire" in Canada: promises in the South, 1916-1921 -- Drawing lines on God's earth: settlers in Mexico and Paraguay, 1922-1929 -- Dreaming of "Old" Canada: nostalgia in the diaspora, 1930-1945 -- Rethinking time and space: East Paraguay and beyond, 1945-1954 -- Meeting the outside gaze: new life in British Honduras and Bolivia, 1954-1972 -- Crystallizing memory: the "return" of the Kanadier, 1951-1979 -- Imagining a Pan-American village: reading Die Mennonitische Post, 1977-1996 -- Homing in on the transnational world: women migrants in Ontario, 1985-2006.

Village among Nations recuperates a missing chapter of Canadian history: the story of traditionalist Mennonites who emigrated from Canada for cultural reasons, but then in later generations "returned" in large numbers for economic and social security.

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