ISBN:
9781487530280
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1487530285
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (lxiii, 686 pages)
,
maps, illustrations
Series Statement:
Tsarist and Soviet Mennonite Studies
Uniform Title:
Works Selections
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Keywords:
Cornies, Johann
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Cornies, Johann Correspondence
;
Cornies, Johann - 1789-1848 - Correspondance
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Cornies, Johann - 1789-1848
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1800-1899
;
Germans Correspondence
;
Mennonites Correspondence
;
Germans History 19th century
;
Mennonites History 19th century
;
Allemands - Ukraine (Sud) - Correspondance
;
Mennonites - Ukraine (Sud) - Correspondance
;
Allemands - Ukraine (Sud) - Histoire - 19e siècle
;
Mennonites - Ukraine (Sud) - Histoire - 19e siècle
;
HISTORY - Europe - Eastern
;
Germans
;
Mennonites
;
History
;
Personal correspondence
;
Southern Ukraine
Abstract:
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Russian empire opened the grasslands of southern Ukraine to agricultural settlement. Among the immigrants who arrived were communities of Prussian Mennonites, recruited as "model colonists" to bring progressive agricultural methods to the east. 'Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian steppe' documents the Tsarist Mennonite experience through the papers of Johann Cornies (1789-1848), an ambitious and energetic leader of the Mennonite colony of Molochna. Cornies was well connected in the imperial government, and his papers offer a window not just into the world of the Molochna Mennonites but also into the Tsarist state's relationship with the national minorities of the frontier: Mennonites, Doukhbors, Nogai Tartars, and Jews. This selection of his letters and reports, translated into English, is an invaluable resource for scholars of all aspects of life in Tsarist Ukraine and for those interested in Mennonite history
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Translator's Note -- Introduction -- PART ONE: Correspondence -- 1836 -- 1837 -- 1838 -- 1839 -- 1840 -- 1841 -- 1842 -- PART TWO: Johann Cornies' Archaeological Excavation Reports -- Editors' Introduction -- Reports -- Appendix I: Genealogy of Johann Cornies' Immediate Family -- Appendix II: List of Correspondents -- Appendix III: Glossary -- Appendix IV: Chronology -- Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Translations from the German
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