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Author : Peter Jansen
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Memoirs of Peter Jansen written by Peter Jansen and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Jansen
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230288536
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (885 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of Peter Jansen; the Record of a Busy Life written by Peter Jansen and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... native of Wurtemberg and very accommodating and trusty but not very bright. About eight o'clock in the evening he called up on the telephone from Jansen and said he believed he could not get through the snowdrifts with his team. I told, him he would be a fool to try it; to leave the mules at the livery stable and himself to go to bed at the hotel. About midnight I heard a knock at the kitchen door. Opening it, there sood Carl, covered with ice and snow, looking like a veritable Sainta Claus, the mail pouch slung over his shoulder. I pulled him inside, as he could hardly stand, and commenced scolding him for risking his life in such a foolhardy way. Hie looked at me rather sheepishly and said: "Why, Mr. Jansen, I knew you wanted your mail." He had walked those four miles, feeling his way from one telephone pole to the next one, floundering through drifts six feet deep, often losing his way, but never giving up. It certainly was getting the news under difficulties. POLITICAL LIFE It seems but natural that I should have taken an active interest in the political and public affairs of the country of my adoption. Being a sheepman and in favor of protecting wool, it was also natural that I became a Republican from the start. However, I would probably have affiliated with the Republican party anyway. Its conservative policy and the achievements of the great men who founded it appealed to me. The Mennonite Church had never permitted its members to take an active part in politics. There was good reason for this in Russia and Germany, but here conditions were entirely different, and I soon formed the conclusion that the man who failed to do his part in maintaining good government was not a good or useful citizen. My people at first rather resented...
Author : Peter Jansen
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781020558689
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (586 download)
Download or read book Memoirs Of Peter Jansen written by Peter Jansen and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Jansen's memoirs offer a fascinating glimpse into the life of a man of great ambition and accomplishment. From his humble beginnings, Jansen rose to prominence in the world of business, politics, and philanthropy. Along the way, he faced numerous challenges and setbacks but never lost his determination and sense of purpose. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : James C. Olson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803286325
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book History of Nebraska, Fourth Edition written by James C. Olson and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2014-12-31 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of Nebraska was originally created to mark the territorial centennial of Nebraska and then revised to coincide with the statehood centennial. This one-volume history quickly became the standard text for the college student and reference for the general reader, unmatched for generations as the only comprehensive history of the state. This fourth edition, revised and updated, preserves the spirit and intelligence of the original. Incorporating the results of years of scholarship and research, this edition gives fuller attention to such topics as the Native American experience in Nebraska and the accomplishments and circumstances of the state’s women and minorities. It also provides a historical analysis of the state’s dramatic changes in the past two decades.
Author : Frederick C. Luebke
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826319920
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)
Download or read book European Immigrants in the American West written by Frederick C. Luebke and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of articles examining the histories and impact of European immigrants to the West.
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Total Pages : 228 pages
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Download or read book Nebraska History and Record of Pioneer Days written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rod Janzen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1606081349
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Paul Tschetter written by Rod Janzen and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-05-04 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Tschetter Was a Leading Figure In Late Nineteenth-Century Hutterite history, the "Hutterite Joshua," who convinced 1,250 Hutterites to leave Russia in the 1870s and resettle in Dakota Territory. Tschetter's life elucidates the way that an immigrant community fought for survival in a North American environment that stressed assimilation to radically different political, economic, cultural, and religious values. Janzen provides an in-depth narrative and analysis of Tschetter's influence based on diaries, sermons, hymns, interviews, and other primary materials. "I welcome this long-overdue book on Paul Tschetter. Rod Janzen is to be commended for continuing to preserve the Prairieleut heritage. Paul Tschetter provided much needed leadership in a very transitional period of Hutterian history."---Tony Waldner, Forest River Hutterite Colony "Much has been written on the communal Hutterites, but Rod Janzen is one of the very few scholars who have tracked the history of the more numerous Prairieleut, or noncommunal Hutterites. Spotlighting the pivotal Prairieleut leader Paul Tschetter is a giant step forward in preserving the history of the `other' Hutterites."---Timothy Miller, University of Kansas "Janzen writes the way history ought to be written ... The author builds upon, and then goes far beyond all previous studies---in content, and especially in his solid interpretation and historical analysis where socioreligious perspectives are not shortchanged."---Leonard Gross, author of the Golden Years of the Hutterites "The Tschetter family is grateful for Dr. Janzen's thoughtful biography."---Wesley G. Tschetter, South Dakota State University "Paul Tschetter's biography---so well-written by the careful and detailed research of Rod Janzen---preserves as a lasting tribute the story of a wonderful and many-sided man and the remarkable community of the Prairieleut people in the context of a forever vanished society and era."---Max Stanton, Brigham Young University, Hawaii
Author : Gustav Eduard Reimer
Publisher : Newton, Kan. : Mennonite Publication Office
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Exiled by the Czar written by Gustav Eduard Reimer and published by Newton, Kan. : Mennonite Publication Office. This book was released on 1956 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fred Richard Belk
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1579105068
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (791 download)
Download or read book The Great Trek of the Russian Mennonites to Central Asia 1880-1884 written by Fred Richard Belk and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2000-10-17 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Brock
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400878373
Total Pages : 1018 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Pacifism in the United States written by Peter Brock and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 1018 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called "a pioneer work of the first importance" by Staughton Lynd, this book traces the history of pacifism in America from colonial times to the start of World War I. The author describes how the immigrant peace sects-Quaker, Mennonite, and Dunker -faced the challenges of a hostile environment. The peace societies that sprang up after 1815 form the subject of the next section, with particular attention focused upon the American Peace Society and Garrison's New England Non-Resistance Society. A series of chapters on the reactions of these sects and societies to the Civil War, the neglect of pacifism in the postwar period, and the beginnings of a renewal in the years before the outbreak of war in Europe bring the book to a close. The emphasis on the institutional aspects of the movement is balanced throughout by a rich mine of accounts about the experiences of individual pacifists. Originally published in 1968. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Addison Erwin Sheldon
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Nebraska History written by Addison Erwin Sheldon and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Theron F. Schlabach
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1556351976
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (563 download)
Download or read book Peace, Faith, Nation written by Theron F. Schlabach and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2007-02-02 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Peace, Faith, Nation' tells the story of Mennonite and Amish life in nineteenth-century America -- stories of families, of churches, of communities. It tells of work and play, of moving and settling, of struggling with citizenship, of various means (including the Old Order ways) of church renewal. It is a Mennonite history but also an American history. At its heart it tells of response to the nationalist, individualistic, aggressive, and progressive spirit of America. Most Mennonites were quiet, peace-oriented, communal, and humility-minded. Yet the American spirit beckoned -- especially as it often came through Protestant revivalism and promised religious renewal.
Author : Jacob Abram Loewen
Publisher : Kindred Productions (c) 1997
ISBN 13 : 9780921788447
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (884 download)
Download or read book Only the Sword of the Spirit written by Jacob Abram Loewen and published by Kindred Productions (c) 1997. This book was released on 1997 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only the Sword of the Spirit reconstructs the development of Menno Simon's "anabaptist Vision and methodically traces its evolution through the entire northern stream of Mennonites in Holland, Prussia, North Germany, Russia, and North America....It concludes with an appeal for the recovery of a relevant version of Menno Simon's 16th century vision for our own times.o
Author : Duane C. S. Stoltzfus
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421411288
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Pacifists in Chains written by Duane C. S. Stoltzfus and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-12-15 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the disturbing history of four pacifists imprisoned for their refusal to serve during World War I. To Hutterites and members of other pacifist sects, serving the military in any way goes against the biblical commandment “thou shalt not kill” and Jesus’s admonition to turn the other cheek when confronted with violence. Pacifists in Chains tells the story of four young men—Joseph Hofer, Michael Hofer, David Hofer, and Jacob Wipf—who followed these beliefs and refused to perform military service in World War I. The men paid a steep price for their resistance, imprisoned in Alcatraz and Fort Leavenworth, where the two youngest died. The Hutterites buried the men as martyrs, citing mistreatment. Using archival material, letters from the four men and others imprisoned during the war, and interviews with their descendants, Duane C. S. Stoltzfus explores the tension between a country preparing to enter into a world war and a people whose history of martyrdom for their pacifist beliefs goes back to their sixteenth-century Reformation beginnings.
Author : Rod Janzen
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801899257
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Hutterites in North America written by Rod Janzen and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2010-07-18 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the longest-lived communal societies in North America, the Hutterites have developed multifaceted communitarian perspectives on everything from conflict resolution and decision-making practices to standards of living and care for the elderly. This compellingly written book offers a glimpse into the complex and varied lives of the nearly 500 North American Hutterite communities. North American Hutterites today number around 50,000 and have common roots with and beliefs akin to the Amish and other Old Order Christians. This historical analysis and anthropological investigation draws on existing research, primary sources, and over 25 years of the authors' interaction with Hutterite communities to recount the group's physical and spiritual journey from its 16th-century founding in Eastern Europe and its near disappearance in Transylvania in the 1760s to its late 19th-century transplantation to North America and into the modern era. It explains how the Hutterites found creative ways to manage social and economic changes over more than five centuries while holding to the principles and cultural values embedded in their faith. Religious scholars, anthropologists, and historians of America and the Anabaptist faiths will find this objective-yet-appreciative account of the Hutterites' distinct North American culture to be a valuable and fascinating study both of the religion and of a viable alternative to modern-day capitalism.
Author : Royden Loewen
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252063251
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (632 download)
Download or read book Family, Church, and Market written by Royden Loewen and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loewen examines how the Mennonites' social structure and life goals accommodated societal changes and tells of three generations for whom the farm family was the primary social unit. The group's strategies of cultural continuity dictated that they adapt sensitively and carefully to the market economy and the outside world. Photos. Maps.
Author : Thomas Bernhard
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226044327
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Three Novellas written by Thomas Bernhard and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2003-06-23 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Bernhard is "one of the masters of contemporary European fiction" (George Steiner); "one of the century's most gifted writers" (New York Newsday); "a virtuoso of rancor and rage" (Bookforum). And although he is favorably compared with Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett, and Robert Musil, Thomas Bernhard still remains relatively unknown in America. Uninitiated readers should consider Three Novellas a passport to the absurd, dark, and uncommonly comic world of Bernhard. Two of the three novellas here have never before been published in English, and all of them show an early preoccupation with the themes-illness and madness, isolation, tragic friendships-that would obsess Bernhard throughout his career. Amras, one of his earliest works, tells the story of two brothers, one epileptic, who have survived a family suicide pact and are now living in a ruined tower, struggling with madness, trying either to come fully back to life or finally to die. In Playing Watten, the narrator, a doctor who lost his practice due to morphine abuse, describes a visit paid him by a truck driver who wanted the doctor to return to his habit of playing a game of cards (watten) every Wednesday—a habit that the doctor had interrupted when one of the players killed himself. The last novella, Walking, records the conversations of the narrator and his friend Oehler while they walk, discussing anything that comes to mind but always circling back to their mutual friend Karrer, who has gone irrevocably mad. Perhaps the most overtly philosophical work in Bernhard's highly philosophical oeuvre, Walking provides a penetrating meditation on the impossibility of truly thinking. Three Novellas offers a superb introduction to the fiction of perhaps the greatest unsung hero of twentieth-century literature. Rarely have the words suffocating, intense, and obsessive been meant so positively.
