Karen M Johnson-Weiner

New York Amish

Life in the Plain Communities of the Empire State

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Tracing Amish settlement in New York from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner draws on more than thirty years of participant-observation, interviews, and archival research to introduce the Amish to their non-Amish neighbors.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 151mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 448g
• ISBN-13: 9781501707605
• ISBN-10: 1501707604
• Artikelnr.: 47085003

Autorenporträt

Karen M. Johnson-Weiner

Inhaltsangabe

1. Who Are the Amish? Meeting Our Plain Neighbors2. Cattaraugus and
Chautauqua Counties: Amish Pioneers in Western New York3. St. Lawrence
County's Swartzentruber Amish: The Plainest of the Plain People4. From
Lancaster County to Lowville: Moving North to Keep the Old Ways5. The
Mohawk Valley Amish: Old Order Diversity in Central New York6. In Search of
Consensus and Fellowship: New York's Swiss Amish7. On Franklin County's
Western Border: New Settlements in the North Country8. Challenges to Amish
Settlement: Maintaining Community and Identity9. Challenging the Non-Amish
Neighbors: Uneasy Integration10. The Future of New York's Amish: Two
Worlds, Side by Side