{"product_id":"village-among-nations-9781442614673","title":"Village Among Nations","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetween the 1920s and the 1940s, 10,000 traditionalist Mennonites emigrated from western Canada to isolated rural sections of Northern Mexico and the Paraguayan Chaco; over the course of the twentieth century, they became increasingly scattered through secondary migrations to East Paraguay, British Honduras, Bolivia, and elsewhere in Latin America. Despite this dispersion, these Canadian-descendant Mennonites, who now number around 250,000, developed a rich transnational culture over the years, resisting allegiance to any one nation and cultivating a strong sense of common peoplehood based on a history of migration, nonviolence, and distinct language and dress.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVillage among Nations\u003c\/em\u003e recuperates a missing chapter of Canadian history: the story of these Mennonites who emigrated from Canada for cultural reasons, but then in later generations “returned” in large numbers for economic and social security. Royden Loewen analyzes a wide variety of texts, by men an\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Village among Nations is a patiently pieced together patchwork of memoirs, letters, newspapers, diaries, and the research of graduate students; what emerges from the many pieces is a coherent and compelling whole, the most comprehensive portrait of the Low German world to date.' -- Robyn Sneath The Mennonite Quarterly Review; January 2015 'Royden Loewen's monograph is a fantastic, insightful, and nuanced study... The book is an important contribution to migration history and is a must read for anybody interested in adding transnational perspectives to Canadian history.' -- Benjamin Bryce Canadian Historical Review vol 97:01:2016 'Loewen has created a sources that transcends the academy and is accessible for a broad audience...The book's most significant contribution is that it creates a scholarly map identifying the terrain for future studies. As such, this is a path breaking work.' -- Patricia Harms Journal of Mennonite Studies, vol 32:2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  Acknowlegements  Introduction  Ch 1: Leaving the 'British Empire' in Canada: Promises in the South, 1916-1921  Ch 2. Drawing Lines on God's Earth: Settlers in Mexico and Paraguay, 1922-1929  Ch 3: Dreaming of 'Old Canada': Nostalgia in the Diaspora, 1930-1945  Ch 4: Rethinking Time and Space: East Paraguay and Beyond: 1945-1954  Ch 5: Meeting the Outside Gaze: New Life in British Honduras and Bolivia, 1954-1972  Ch 6: Crystallizing Memory: The Return of the 'Kanadier', 1951-1979  Ch 7: Imagining a Pan-American Village: Reading Die Mennonitische Post, 1977-1996  Ch 8: Homing in on the Transnational Village: Women Migrants in Ontario, 1985-2006  Conclusion  Bibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408352092503,"sku":"9781442614673","price":28.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442614673.jpg?v=1730502555","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/village-among-nations-9781442614673","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}