Young Center books in Anabaptist and Pietist studies
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : religion, religious minorities, and the American Civil War -- Politics and peoplehood in a restless republic -- Our country is at war -- Conscription, combat, and Virginia's "war of self-defense," 1861-1862 -- Negotiation and notoriety in Pennsylvania, 1862 -- Patterns of peace and patriotism in the Midwest -- The fighting comes north, 1862-1863 -- Thaddeus Stevens and Pennsylvania Mennonite politics -- Did Jesus Christ teach men war? -- Resistance and revenge in Virginia, 1863-1864 -- Burning the Shenandoah Valley -- Reconstructed nation, reconstructed peoplehood.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-292) and index.
Summary
"Measuring America is the fascinating, provocative, and eye-opening story of why America has ended up with its unique system of weights and measures -the American Customary System, unlike any other in the world- and how this has profoundly shaped our country and culture. In the process, Measuring America reveals the colossal power contained inside the acres and miles, ounces and pounds, that we use every day without ever realizing their significance. " [from the publisher]
edited by Diana Zimmerman Umble and David L. Weaver-Zercher.
ISBN
9780801887895 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0801887895 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Place of Publication
Baltimore
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press,
Date of Publication
2008.
Physical Description
ix, 275 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series
Young Center books in Anabaptist & Pietist studies
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Witnessing the Amish / Crystal Downing -- Reel Amish / Dirk Eitzen -- "Why we fear the Amish" / Julia Spicher Kasdorf -- Pursuing paradise / David L. Weaver-Zercher -- Heritage versus history / Susan Biesecker -- Hollywood rumspringa / Dirk Eitzen -- Amish informants / Donald B. Kraybill -- Inscribing community / Steven M. Nolt -- Publish or perish / Karen Johnson-Weiner -- "Wicked truth" / Diane Zimmerman Umble -- The Amish, the media, and the Nickel Mines School shooting / Diane Zimmerman Umble and David L. Weaver-Zercher.
Chapters: Cultivating the Garden : The invention of Lancaster County -- Pride and Progress : Education, Literacy , and The Little Red Schoolhouse -- Dutch Country : The Amish and Tourism -- Domain of Abundance : Food and Farming -- The Landscape of Progress : Urbanization and Planning -- Preserving The Garden : Development and Farm Preservation -- Epilogue : The Harvest -- Appendix : Farms and Population Of Lancaster 1900 to 2000
Summary
It is the tension between rural tradition, progress, and urbanization that lies at the core of Garden Spot. David Walbert examines how twentieth century American culture has come to define and appreciate rurality, and how growth and economic expansion can co-exist with preservation of the traditional ways of life in the region. Will small farms fail in a culture that has increasingly come to value productivity over quality of life? What impact will further development have on maintaining this region's character? Can rurality and progress co-exist in the 21st century?A vivid portrayal of the land and people, residents and outsiders alike, Garden Spot narrates the history of this region and considers the challenges Lancaster County and its people face in order to preserve their unique place. [from the publisher]
History of Scottish dissentng Presbyterianism in Lancaster County, PA : an account of Associate, Associate Reformed, and United Presbyterian Church of North America clergy and congregations
"America’'s Dissenting Presbyterians have somewhat difficult histories to understand but basically they are unified in this fact, for some reason, they chose to separate from the Church of Scotland, and upon arriving in America they could not in good conscience join the mainline Presbyterian Church...There are today only two groups of dissenting Presbyterians left in the United States and they are the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, and the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America. Both have different yet somewhat similar histories. The Reformed Presbyterians are known as “Covenanters†they are the Society people that at the time of Revolution Settlement could not in good conscience go back into the Church of Scotland. The Associate Reformed Presbyterians or ARP are a merger of two Presbyterian groups, the Associate Church and the Reformed Presbyterians, to form a uniquely Scottish and American Presbyterian Church in the United States. The things that set the Dissenting Presbyterians apart from their mainline counterparts were strict confessional adherence to the point of becoming in many ways countercultural, holding strictly to the Regulative Principle of Worship, and never assimilating as quickly into American Society as their mainline counterparts." [https://purelypresbyterian.com/2017/09/23/americas-dissenting-presbyterian-heritage/]
