The Old German Baptist Brethren : faith, farming, and change in the Virginia Blue Ridge /

The Old German Baptist Brethren : faith, farming, and change in the Virginia Blue Ridge /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Thompson, Charles D., Jr. (Charles Dillard), 1956-
Imprint:Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, [2006]
©2006
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Subject:
Old German Baptist Brethren -- Virginia -- Franklin County -- History.
Old German Baptist Brethren -- Virginia -- Franklin County -- Interviews.
Old German Baptist Brethren
German Americans -- Virginia -- Franklin County -- History.
Brethren (Brethren churches) -- Virginia -- Franklin County -- Social life and customs.
German Americans -- Virginia -- Franklin County -- Social life and customs.
German Americans -- Virginia -- Franklin County -- Interviews.
Farm life -- Virginia -- Franklin County.
Farm life
German Americans
German Americans -- Social life and customs
Manners and customs
Franklin County (Va.) -- History.
Franklin County (Va.) -- Social life and customs.
Franklin County (Va.) -- Religious life and customs.
Virginia -- Franklin County
History
Interviews
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12481126
Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN:9780252092657
0252092651
1283044110
9781283044110
9786613044112
6613044113
9780252031038
0252031032
9780252073434
0252073436
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-212) and index.
English.
Print version record.
Other form:Print version: Old German Baptist Brethren 9780252031038
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Nonresistance and change
  • Part I : saints in the wilderness
  • The ancient order
  • The Carolina Road
  • Part II : wilderness no more
  • Raising citizens
  • Community-based agriculture
  • Adversity and perseverance
  • Membership
  • Hope
  • Epilogue : they go quietly.

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