Shipshewana
Subtitle: an Indiana Amish community
By: Dorothy O. Pratt.
Publisher: Quarry Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Bloomington, IN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Amish -- Indiana -- Shipshewana -- History.; Amish -- Indiana -- Shipshewana -- Social conditions.; Amish -- Indiana -- LaGrange County -- History.; Amish -- Indiana -- LaGrange County -- Social conditions.; Shipshewana (Ind.) -- History.; LaGrange County (Ind.) -- History.
Description: "This book is a cultural history of one Indiana Amish community and how it has successfully resisted assimilation into the mass culture of America today."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-202) and index.
Table of contents: title: The LaGrange County settlement; title: Creating cultural fencing; title: The draft and the First World War; title: The Indiana Councils of Defense and the Amish; title: Modernization and the school issue; title: The Great Depression; title: Civilian public service; title: The home front in the Second World War; title: Gaining control, 1946-1975; title: Conclusion.