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Journal of Mennonite Studies Volume 35, 2017
Foreword: the editor 7
JMS Forum:
Mennonites, Land and the Environment
“Parks magnificent as paradise”: Nature and Visual Art among the Mennonites of the Early Modern Dutch Republic, NINA SCHROEDER 11
Mennonite Capital and Rural Transformation in Friesland and Overijssel, 1700-1850, COR TROMPETTER 41
Nature and Neighbours in the Netherlands: Talking with Doopsgezinde Farmers about the Environment, HANS PETER FAST 61
“Every family on their own”?: Iowa’s Mennonite Farm Communities and the 1980s Farm Crisis, JOHN EICHER 75
Agrarian Tradition vs. Modern Farm Business: Monitoring a ‘Debate’ in the (Old) Mennonite Church, REBECCA HORNER SHENTON 97
On the Mennonite-Métis Borderland: Environment, Colonialism, and Settlement in Manitoba, JOSEPH R. WIEBE 111
(Trans)planting Manitoba’s West Reserve: Mennonites, Myth, and Narratives of Place, SUSIE FISHER 127
The Villages of Tunggul Wulung and Pieter Jansz: Vision and Reality in the Javanese Countryside, LAWRENCE M. YODER 149
Javanese Wisdom, Mennonite Faith, and the Green Revolution: The Farmers of Margorejo, DANANG KRISTIAWAN 173
Voices from the Hills vs. Words from the Missionary: Competing Rural Cultures in Southwestern Zimbabwe, ELIAKIM SIBANDA 197
Mothers, Soil, and Substance: Stories of Endurance from Matobo Hills, Zimbabwe, BELINDA NCUBE 223
Cultivating the Steppe: The Origins of Mennonite Farming Practices in the Russian Empire, DAVID MOON 241
Modelling Mennonites: Farming the Siberian Kulunda Steppe, 1921 to 1928, HANS WERNER 269
Sowing Hatred or Producing Prosperity: Agriculture and Believers in Post-World War II Communist Siberia, AILEEN FRIESEN 287
Cheese is Culture and Soy is Commodity: Environmental Change in a Bolivian Mennonite Colony, BEN NOBBS-THIESSEN 303
Vulnerability and Agriculture among Old Colony Mennonites in Quintana Roo: A Research Note, CAROLINA VARGAS and MARTHA GARCÍA ORTEGA 329
Regular Research Papers
From Martyr Narrative to Medical Discourse: Writing a Contemporary Mennonite Subject, REBECCA PLETT 339
Caught Between the Lines: The Fictionalization of Anabaptism in Historical Novels of the Kulturkampf Era, BERIT JANY 357
Book Reviews
Literary Reviews
Robert Zacharias, ed., After Identity (Rosmarin Heidenreich) 381
David Bergen, Stranger (Dora Dueck) 385
Maurice Mierau, Autobiographical Fictions (Di Brandt) 386
Carla Funk, Gloryland (Tanis MacDonald) 388
Jeff Gundy, Abandoned Homeland (Kyle Gerber) 390
Keith Miller, The Sins of Angels (Daniel Shank Cruz) 393
Mary Ann Loewen, ed., Sons and Mothers (Kerry Fast) 395
Garth Martens, Prologue for the Age of Consequence (Warren Cariou) 397
Lynette Loeppky, Cease (Ann Hostetler) 400
Connie T. Braun, Unspoken (Grace Kehler) 402
Katherena Vermette, The Break (David Gaertner) 404
History and Social Science Reviews
Harvey L. Dyck and John R. Staples, eds., Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian Steppe (Aileen Friesen) 407
Jacob A. Neufeld, Path of Thorns, trans. Harvey L. Dyck and Sara Dyck, (Hans Werner) 409
Luann Good Gingrich, Out of Place (Patirica Harms) 410
Royden Loewen, Horse-and-Buggy Genius (Lorenzo Cañás Bottos) 413
Katie Funk Wiebe, My Immigrant Father (Jonathan Wagner) 415
Jacob E. Peters, Adolf Ens and Eleanor Chornoboy, eds., The Outsiders’ Gaze (Roland Sawatzky) 416
Dorothy M. Peters with Christine S. Kampen, Daughters in the House of Jacob (Robyn Sneath) 418
J. Denny Weaver, God Without Violence (Carl Friesen) 420
Mark L. Louden, Pennsylvania Dutch (Kristin Lovrien-Meuwese) 422
Katherine Martens and Edgar G. Reimer, Reimer Legacy (Patricia Janzen Loewen) 424
In Memoriam
Katie Funk Wiebe 427
Authors’ Profiles 429
Notices and Calls for Papers 434