Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian Steppe - Letters and Papers of Johann Cornies, Volume Ii: 1836-1842

This book documents the Tsarist Mennonite experience through the papers of Johann Cornies (1789-1848), an ambitious and energetic leader of the Mennonite settlement of Molochna. Cornies’ papers offer a widow onto both the Mennonite world, and onto the Tsarist state’s relationship with minorities of the frontier.

List of contents

List of Maps
Preface
Acknowledgments
Translator’s Note
Introduction
Part One: Correspondence
1836
1837
1838
1839
1840
1841
1842
Part Two: Johann Cornies’ Archaeological Excavation Reports
Editors’ Introduction
Reports
Appendix I: Genealogy of Johann Cornies’ Immediate Family
Appendix II: List of Correspondents
Appendix III: Glossary
Appendix IV: Chronology
Index

About the author

Edited by Harvey L. Dyck, Ingrid I. Epp, and John R. Staples

Summary

This book documents the Tsarist Mennonite experience through the papers of Johann Cornies (1789–1848), an ambitious and energetic leader of the Mennonite settlement of Molochna. Cornies’ papers offer a widow onto both the Mennonite world, and onto the Tsarist state’s relationship with minorities of the frontier.

Product details

• Authors: Harvey L. (EDT)/ Epp Dyck, Harvey L. Epp Dyck, Harvey L. Staples Dyck
• Assisted by: Harvey L Dyck (Editor), Harvey L. Dyck (Editor), Ingrid I Epp (Editor), Ingrid I. Epp (Editor), John R Staples (Editor), John R. Staples (Editor), Ingrid I. Epp (Translation)
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781487504496
• ISBN: 978-1-4875-0449-6
• No. of pages: 752
• Series: Tsarist and Soviet Mennonite Studies; Tsarist and Soviet Mennonite S; Tsarist and Soviet Mennonite Studies; Tsarist and Soviet Mennonite S
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Russland, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, Biography / Autobiography, HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union