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John J. Friesen. Building Communities: The Changing Face of Manitoba Mennonites.

Publication: Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal
Publication Date: 22-SEP-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
John J. Friesen. Building Communities: The Changing Face of Manitoba Mennonites. Winnipeg: CMU Press, 2007. 230 pp. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $32.50 sc.

In this large format book John J. Friesen, a historian who for many years taught at Mennonite colleges in Winnipeg, presents a general survey of Mennonite history, society and culture in Manitoba written "for the interested, non-professional reader" in Mennonite communities and people "beyond" (xiii). Although aimed primarily at Mennonites and at a general readership, it is written by a professional historian with all the scholarly apparatus of references and appendixes. Manitoba Mennonites have featured prominently in earlier academic analyses of Western Canadian ethnic groups. They appear in C. A. Dawson's Group Settlement: Ethnic Communities in Western Canada (1936) and in a pioneering study In Search of Utopia (1955) by...

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