Shipshewana - An Indiana Amish Community

Informationen zum Autor Dorothy O. Pratt Klappentext Crisis and abuse from the outer world have tended only to confirm the desire of the Amish to remain a people apart, and lends a special poignancy to this engrossing tale of resistance to the modern world. Zusammenfassung An intimate history of an Indiana Amish community Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The LaGrange County Settlement 2. Creating Cultural Fencing 3. The Draft and the First World War 4. The Indiana Councils of Defense and the Amish 5. Modernization and the School Issue 6. The Great Depression 7. Civilian Public Service 8. The Home Front in the Second World War 9. Gaining Control, 1946-1975 10. Conclusion Notes Suggestions for Further Reading Index

Product details

• Authors: Dorothy O Pratt, Dorothy O. Pratt, Pratt Dorothy O
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.10.2004
• EAN: 9780253345189
• ISBN: 978-0-253-34518-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Quarry Books
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Travel