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• Short-listed for Canadian Historical Association Wallace K. Ferguson Prize 2022 (Canada)
• Short-listed for Margaret McWilliams Award 2021 (United States)

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An accessible entry point for readers interested in learning about places other than their own, as well as the interplays between natural resources and human cultivation. -- Dr. Rachel Waltner Goossen * Anabaptist World *

An accessible entry point for readers interested in learning about places other than their own, as well as the interplays between natural resources and human cultivation. -Dr. Rachel Waltner Goossen, Washburn Univerity, Anabaptist World An outstanding work of comparative oral history that artfully situates Mennonite farmers within the context of Anabaptist teachings, the Mennonite diaspora, and the Anthropocene. Offering extensive descriptions of each rural environment and personal stories of life on the land, Loewen helps readers come to know each place comfortably. This excellent book is uniquely positioned to demonstrate how communitarian faith and cultural enclaves compare with 'high modernist' and technocratic government approaches to the environment. -Joshua MacFayden, University of Prince Edward Island, author of Flax AmericanaA History of the Fibre and Oil That Covered a Continent Mennonite Farmers makes an important and original contribution to the history of rural and agricultural communities worldwide. Loewen does an excellent job of documenting and explaining the considerable diversity of experience across and even within seven different Mennonite communities around the world Giving ever-deepening insight into each community, this book will be of interest to scholars in Anabaptist studies, agricultural history, rural life, environmental history, and microhistorical studies. -Ruth Wells Sandwell, University of Toronto, author of Canada's Rural Majority, 1870-1940: Households, Environments, Economies Royden Loewen's highly engaging account compares how farmers on five continents with shared religious beliefs have differently negotiated their encounters with their environments and modernity. Both global and local, this book will be of great interest to scholars of religion, communities, agriculture, and the environment. -David Moon, University of York, author of The Plough that Broke the Steppes: Agriculture and Environment on Russia's Grasslands, 1700-1914 Wonder what a group of farmers from four corners of the globe might discuss if they all came together for a coffee hour? Royden Loewen enlightens us by addressing how culture undergirds agriculture and how belief influences the business of farming. Mennonite Farmers confirms that commitment comes at a cost but can also sustain farm fields and families alike. -Debra A. Reid, Curator of Agriculture and the Environment, The Henry Ford Loewen has written an imaginative and graceful global history of Mennonite farming. He builds a compelling history of how local farm communities in the Global North and Global South grappled with-and actively participated in-larger global forces. Mennonite Farmers offers a fresh perspective on the histories of agriculture, environment, and sustainability in the twentieth century. -Stuart McCook, University of Guelph, author of Coffee is Not Forever: A Global History of the Coffee Leaf Rust

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Royden Loewen is a senior scholar at the University of Winnipeg. His books include Horse-and-Buggy Genius: Listening to Mennonites Contest the Modern World and Village among Nations: ""Canadian"" Mennonites in a Transnational World, 1916–2006.

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