Amish Women and the Great Depression
$134.52
- Hardcover
200 pages
- Release Date
23 October 2023
Summary
Amish Women and the Great Depression
A detailed look at how Amish women sustained family farming during the Great Depression.
At the end of the Great Depression, the US Bureau of Agricultural Economics (BAE) designated the Old Order Amish of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, the most economically and culturally stable agricultural community in the nation. In Amish Women and the Great Depression, Katherine Jellison and Steven D. Reschly examine the integral role that A…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781421447971 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1421447975 |
| Author: | Katherine Jellison, Steven D. Reschly |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Imprint: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 200 |
| Release Date: | 23 October 2023 |
| Weight: | 510g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies |
About The Author
Katherine Jellison
Katherine Jellison is a professor of history and the director of the Central Region Humanities Center at Ohio University. She is the author of Entitled to Power: Farm Women and Technology, 1913–1963, and It’s Our Day: America’s Love Affair with the White Wedding, 1945–2005.
Steven D. Reschly is professor emeritus of history at Truman State University. He is the author of The Amish on the Iowa Prairie, 1840–1910, and a coeditor of Strangers at Home: Amish and Mennonite Women in History.
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