Mennonites in Canada: A People's Struggle for Survival --- 1920 to 1940 -by Frank H Epp -a Signed Copy ( Volume 2 / Two )

Toronto, Ontario: Toronto, ON: MacMillan / Gage Publishing, 1982, 1st Edition, First Printing, 1982. ------------( 1st printing of the First Edition ) ---hardcover, a Near Fine copy in a Very Good dustjacket with a bit of sunning to the spine, a bit of light rubbing, a tight clean square copy, signed and inscribed "To my cherished colleague Werner Packull Frank Epp 22 Oct 84" ( Werner Otto Packul was a noted: historian of 16th century Hutterite Brethren and South German/Austrian Anabaptists who was Professor Emeritus at University of Waterloo ), 640 pages, b&w photos, contents include: List of Tables and Charts; Foreword; Preface; THE UNCERTAIN FUTURE: Need for Land; Importance of Tolerance; Lack of Solidarity; Diversity Within a Corporate Personality; International Connections --- REAFFIRMATION of the FUNDAMENTALS: Fundamentalism in America / Among Old Mennonites / in Ontario / and Divisiveness / and Fundamentals Elsewhere --- EMIGRATION to LATIN AMERICA: Private Vs. Public Schools; Crushing of Mennonite Resistance; Search for a New Country; Emigration to Mexico / to Paraguay --- IMMIGRATION from RUSSIA: Mennonites and Russia; Working for Survival; A Government and a Railway; preparing the way for Canada; Immigration Under Way --- COMMUNITY BUILDING- SETTLEMENTS: Settlement Organizations and Processes; Homesteads and Villages; Big Farms and Mennonite Terms; Brush and Dry Land; Peace River and Reesor; Gardens, orchards and Dairies --- CONGREGATIONS: Different Cultural Groups; Differences Among the Russlaender; Ontario and Manitoba; Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia; Congregational Life --- THE INTERNAL CONNECTION: From ciil War to Collectivization; Canada Once Again Closed; Popular Images and Public Opinion; New Homelands for Some; International Mennonite Concern --- OVERCOMING the DEPRESSION: Isolated Fields - Alberta; greener fields and Co-Ops - BC and Ontario; Co-op Movement in Manitoba; individualism and Secularization; Resistance to Secularized Aid; medical and Other Institutions --- FEDERATION and FRAGMENTATION: Denominationalism and Provincialism / CMs and MBs / Conference Mennonites; Co-opertaion Attempted and Failed; Fragmentation in Southern Manitoba / Southern Ontario --- KEEPING the YOUNG PEOPLE: children and sunday Schools; youth activity and character Education; Music, Choirs and Choristers; bible Schoolsa nd Evangelism; Marriage and Vocation; Secondary and Post-Secondary Education --- PRESERVING the CULTURE: Culture Interpreted and Explained; Varieties of Separate Culture; Nonconformed Life Style; Languages and Values; ethnicity and Racial Identity; dialects and Popular Culture --- FACING the WORLD: Separation and Involvement; For and Against Germanism; The Nations and the Kingdom; Four Conferences on Peace and War; Mennonites, Militarism, and Their Majesties --- APPENDIX: Summary of Canadain Mennonite Groups in 1940 / Mennonite Population in Canada By provinces and census Divisions in the Years 1921, 1931 and 1941 --- BIBLIOGRAPHY, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and NOT a generic image /// SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE/// ---sizes are approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)---. Signed (see description). First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine (see desciption)/Very Good+ (see description). Illus. by Photo Cover. 6.25w x 9.25h Inches. Flap Not Clipped.