Amish Enterprise - From Plows to Profits

Informationen zum Autor Donald B. Kraybill is a Distinguished College Professor and senior fellow emeritus at Elizabethtown College's Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. Steven M. Nolt is a professor of history and Anabaptist studies at Elizabethtown College and director of the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies. Klappentext Amish culture has been rooted in the soil since its beginnings in 1693. But what happens when members of America's oldest Amish community enter non-farm work in one generation? How will hundreds of cottage industries and micro-enterprises reshape the heart of Amish life? Will traditional eighth grade education still prove adequate? What about gender roles, child-rearing practices, leisure activities, and growing ties with outsiders? Amish Enterprise was the first book to discuss these dramatic changes that are transforming Amish communities across North America. Based on interviews with more than 150 Amish entrepreneurs, the authors trace the rise and impact of businesses in Lancaster's Amish settlement in recent decades. In this new edition, the authors update demographic and technological changes, and also describe Amish enterprises outside of Pennsylvania in a new chapter. Zusammenfassung In this new edition! the authors update demographic and technological changes! and describe Amish enterprises outside of Pennsylvania in a new chapter.

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• Authors: Donald B Kraybill, Donald B. Kraybill, Donald B. (Distinguished Professor and S Kraybill, Donald B. (Distinguished Professor and Senior Fellow Kraybill, Donald B. Nolt Kraybill, Donald B./ Nolt Kraybill, Steven M Nolt, Steven M. Nolt, Steven M. (Professor of History and Anabaptist and Pietist Studies Nolt, Nolt Steven M.
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.06.2004
• EAN: 9780801878053
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-7805-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Center Books in Anabaptist Stu; Center Books in Anabaptist Studies; Center Books in Anabaptist Studies; Center Books in Anabaptist Stu
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Pennsylvania, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, Religious groups: social & cultural aspects, Social groups: religious groups and communities