Amish Women And The Great Depression

Author : Katherine Jellison
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421447975
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amish Women and the Great Depression written by Katherine Jellison and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book examines the role that Amish women played in their community's successful survival of the Great Depression"--

Author : Katherine Jellison
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421447983
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amish Women and the Great Depression written by Katherine Jellison and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Amish women played in this Depression-era success story. Making unprecedented use of quantitative data as well as qualitative accounts by and about Amish women, Jellison and Reschly reveal how Amish women sustained family farming during this devastating time. Using information from the federal government's 1935–1936 Study of Consumer Purchases (SCP), they closely examine the quantitative data related to Old Order Amish families and their neighbors in Lancaster County. SCP investigators approached women in these families to learn about household spending habits, farm crops and income, farm and household equipment, family size, home production, recreational practices, and dietary habits. Jellison and Reschly analyze the production and consumption activities of Amish women and their families as well as comparative data about the practices of their neighbors. Amish Women and the Great Depression also incorporates a variety of qualitative sources to enliven the statistical analysis, including Old Order Amish women's diaries and memoirs; newspaper accounts by and about Amish women; government reports and related correspondence about the Lancaster County Amish; oral histories with elderly Old Order Amish people about their experiences in the 1930s; an oral history with Walter M. Kollmorgen, the author of the 1942 BAE study of Old Order Amish community stability; and photographs by New Deal photographers. This unique portrait of Depression-era farm life provides a historic look into the farming practices and daily lives of Amish women.

Author : Susan L. Trollinger
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421404192
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Selling the Amish written by Susan L. Trollinger and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 19 million tourists flock to Amish Country each year, drawn by the opportunity to glimpse "a better time" and the quaint beauty of picturesque farmland and handcrafted quilts. What they may find, however, are elaborately themed town centers, outlet malls, or even a water park. Susan L. Trollinger explores this puzzling incongruity, showing that Amish tourism is anything but plain and simple. Selling the Amish takes readers on a virtual tour of three such tourist destinations in Ohio’s Amish Country, the world’s largest Amish settlement. Trollinger examines the visual rhetoric of these uniquely themed places—their architecture, interior decor, even their merchandise and souvenirs—and explains how these features create a setting and a story that brings tourists back year after year. This compelling story is, Trollinger argues, in part legitimized by the Amish themselves. To Americans faced with anxieties about modern life, being near the Amish way of life is comforting. The Amish seem to have escaped the rush of contemporary life, the confusion of gender relations, and the loss of ethnic heritage. While the Amish way supports the idealized experience of these tourist destinations, it also raises powerful questions. Tourists may want a life uncomplicated by technology, but would they be willing to drive around in horse-drawn buggies in order to achieve it? Trollinger's answers to important questions in her fascinating study of Amish Country tourism are sure to challenge readers’ understanding of this surprising cultural phenomenon.

Author : Bernard Sternsher
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee Publisher
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women of Valor written by Bernard Sternsher and published by Ivan R. Dee Publisher. This book was released on 1990 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents autobiographical accounts of women who influenced government and labor policy during the Depression.

Author : Kimberly D. Schmidt
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801867866
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strangers at Home written by Kimberly D. Schmidt and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2002-01-15 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""A major contribution to our understanding of Anabaptist history and the ongoing construction of Anabaptist identity."" -- Mennonite Quarterly Review.

Author : Elna C. Green
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570036583
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Looking for the New Deal written by Elna C. Green and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rife with palpable misery and often pleading with desperate urgency, the hundreds of letters assembled in Looking for the New Deal paint a bleak and accurate portrait of the female experience among Floridians during the Great Depression. Searching for help at a time when desperation overwhelmed America, women in Florida shared the same goal as their counterparts elsewhere in the country - they wanted work. In pursuit of a means to provide for their families, these women doggedly, often naively, wrote letters asking for relief assistance from agencies, charities, and state and federal government officials. In this volume Elna C. Green gathers more than three hundred letters written by Floridians that reveal the immediacy and intensity of their plight. The voices of women from all walks of life - black and white, rural and urban, old and young, historically poor and newly impoverished - testify to the determination and ingenuity invoked in facing trying times."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Diane Zimmerman Umble
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holding the Line written by Diane Zimmerman Umble and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A historic perspective on how members of the close-knit communities and their leaders responded to the challenges posed by the intrusion of the telephone into long-standing traditions of work, silence, and visiting in the early 1900s" -- Harrisburg Patriot

Author : Tracy Fredrychowski
Publisher : Tracer Group, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781734241198
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emma's Amish Faith Tested written by Tracy Fredrychowski and published by Tracer Group, LLC. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When tragedy strikes, will this young Amish couple be able to overcome one of life's most challenging circumstances? Loss, depression, and pain face Samuel and Emma Yoder as they maneuver through their first year of marriage. When secrets become too much to bear, Samuel and Emma pull away from each other. Will they be able to admit their fears and heartache to find their way back to God?Adhering to their Old Order ways means they must turn their backs on the truth they find in Jesus. Will this young couple be able to step out in faith to save both their marriage and their community?Young love and community are tested in this first book of The Amish Women of Lawrence County Series.

Author : Melvyn Dubofsky
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780824008987
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Minorities During the Great Depression written by Melvyn Dubofsky and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1990-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Brian Greenberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1598841289
Total Pages : 4860 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social History of the United States [10 volumes] written by Brian Greenberg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-10-23 with total page 4860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ten-volume encyclopedia explores the social history of 20th-century America in rich, authoritative detail, decade by decade, through the eyes of its everyday citizens. Social History of the United States is a cornerstone reference that tells the story of 20th-century America, examining the interplay of policies, events, and everyday life in each decade of the 1900s with unmatched authority, clarity, and insight. Spanning ten volumes and featuring the work of some of the foremost social historians working today, Social History of the United States bridges the gap between 20th-century history as it played out on the grand stage and history as it affected—and was affected by—citizens at the grassroots level. Covering each decade in a separate volume, this exhaustive work draws on the most compelling scholarship to identify important themes and institutions, explore daily life and working conditions across the economic spectrum, and examine all aspects of the American experience from a citizen's-eye view. Casting the spotlight on those whom history often leaves in the dark, Social History of the United States is an essential addition to any library collection.