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Book SynopsisVillage 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.
Trade Review'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 '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 '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
Table of ContentsPreface 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
