They Sought a Country : Mennonite Colonization in Mexico / Harry Leonard Sawatzky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sawatzky, Harry Leonard, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mennonites--Mexico.

Mennonites.

Mennonites--Belize.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (410 p.) : 1 frontisp.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1971]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1971.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Contents

Chapter 1. Background of the Mennonites in Mexico

Chapter 2. Preparations for Auswanderung

Chapter 3. The Colonies in Mexico

Chapter 4. The Physical Environment

Chapter 5. Accommodation to the Mexican Homeland

Chapter 6. Economic Evolution, the Privilegium, and the Attainment of Permanence

Chapter 7. Land Hunger, Expansion, and Other Developments

Chapter 8. The Gradual Economic Transformation

Chapter 9. Institutions and Forms

Chapter 10. The Quality of Living

Appendix. Mennonite Colonization in British Honduras

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520338425

0520338421

OCLC:

1163878138