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Royden Loewen. Diaspora in the Countryside: Two Mennonite Communities and Mid-Twentieth-Century Rural Disjuncture.

Publication: Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal
Publication Date: 22-MAR-08 		Format: Online
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Full Article Title: Royden Loewen. Diaspora in the Countryside: Two Mennonite Communities and Mid-Twentieth-Century Rural Disjuncture.(Book review)

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Royden Loewen. Diaspora in the Countryside: Two Mennonite Communities and Mid-Twentieth-Century Rural Disjuncture. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. 331pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $74.00 hc; $25.70 so.

Beginning with the 1930s, rural North Americans faced a profound cultural transformation that lasted some fifty years. Loewen traces the effects of that transformation on two geographically separated, but ethnically connected communities in Mead Country, Kansas and Hanover, Manitoba. This comparison has validity because of the similarity of rural Mennonite communities generally and the strong ethno-religious bond which all of them share--even across the Canadian-United States border.

Diaspora in the Countryside contains nine chapters which sequentially document the book's narrative. The first chapter outlines...

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