They Sought a Country

They Sought a CountryThey Sought a Country: Mennonite Colonization in Mexico by Harry Leonard Sawatzky is a deeply informed study of a religious communitys quest to preserve its identity through migration. The Mennonites, one of the oldest Protestant sects, originated in the Alps, moved across the North German plain and South Russia, and by the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries had established themselves in Pennsylvania and on the Canadian prairies. Their creed, rooted

nur den tatsächlichen Sprachgebrauch zu untersuchen

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Kommune oder Staatsbürokratie

The interplay of culture and personality was a field where Sapir was a pioneer and many of his essays have become classics in the social sciences

Arguing from a perspective that is both radical and critical

Mediterranean France has been just as reliably Left

and comparative glances at Swift

newly discovered and translated into English for the first time

leading eventually to the radical language of the Piano Sonata and Third String Quartet

That the idea of world revolution was crucial for the Bolshevik leaders in the years following the 1917 revolution is a well-known fact

based on extensive archival research

This volume traces the roots of this linguistic phenomenon back to factors at work in the construction of Hellenicity in the archaic and classical periods

The possibility of internal factors is also addressed and interpretive models of language change are drawn on