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Royden Loewen
The history of the twentieth century is one of modernization, a story of old ways being left behind. Many traditionalist Mennonites rejected these changes, especially the automobile, which they regarded as a symbol of pride and individualism. They be
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Royden Loewen
Between 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 throu
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Royden Loewen
In the 1870s, approximately 18,000 Mennonites migrated from the southern steppes of Imperial Russia (present-day Ukraine) to the North American grasslands. They brought with them an array of cultural and institutional features that indicated they wer
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Royden Loewen
Historian Royden Loewen has brought together selections from diaries kept by 21 Mennonites in Canada between 1863 and 1929, some translated from German for the first time. By skillfully comparing and contrasting a wide cross-section of lives, Loewen
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Royden Loewen
Publikováno v:
Histoire sociale/Social history. 52:137-154
How did migrants from “old” societies negotiate their “new worlds”? How did they make the move from simple to complex societies, from village culture to urban society, from folk medicine to modern, state-sanctioned medicine? In this essay, I
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Royden Loewen
A comparative global history of Mennonites from the ground up.Winner of the Dale W. Brown Book Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Shortlisted for the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize by the Canadian Historical Association,
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Royden Loewen
Publikováno v:
Canadian Historical Review. 96:61-90
Abstract: Historians have increasingly written the animal into the narratives of social history. Broad studies document how humans managed animals, related to them, and were affected by them. Many of these studies critique the separation of humans fr
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Royden Loewen
Publikováno v:
Histoire sociale/Social history. 47:87-105
Between 1977 and 2000, the Mennonitische Post, a Canadian-based newspaper, published thousands of letters by members of a unique diaspora. The extended community of Mennonites whose grandparents had emigrated from Canada in the 1920s to resist the im
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Lisa Chilton, Royden Loewen
Publikováno v:
Histoire sociale/Social history. 47:1-6