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HISTORYVillage among NationsRoyden LoewenApprox. 320 pp / 6 x 9 / October 201320 illustrationsCloth 978-1-4426-4685-8$75.00 (£52.99) EPaper 978-1-4426-1467-3$32.95 (£23.99) CeBook 978-1-4426-6673-3 $32.95History / Religion / Canadian StudiesVillage among Nations“Canadian” Mennonites in a Transnational World, 1916–2006Royden LoewenBetween the 1920s and the 1940s, the descendants of 10,000 traditionalist Mennonitesemigrated from western Canada to isolated rural sections of Northern Mexico and theParaguayan Chaco; over the course of the twentieth century, they became increasinglyscattered through secondary migrations to East Paraguay, British Honduras, Bolivia, andelsewhere in Latin America. Despite this dispersion, these Canadian-descendant Mennonites,who now number around 250,000, developed a rich transnational culture over the years,resisting allegiance to any one nation and cultivating a strong sense of common peoplehoodbased on a history of migration, nonviolence, and distinct language and dress.Village among Nations recuperates a missing chapter of Canadian history: the story of theseMennonites who emigrated from Canada for cultural reasons, but then in later generations“returned” in large numbers for economic and social security. Royden Loewen analyzes a widevariety of texts, by men and women – letters, memoirs, reflections on family debates on landsettlement, exchanges with curious outsiders, and deliberations on issues of citizenship. Theyrelate the untold experience of this uniquely transnational, ethno-religious community.Royden Loewen is the Chair in Mennonite Studies and a professor in the Department ofHistory at the University of Winnipeg. He is an award-winning author of a number of books onMennonites and immigrants in North America.28Essaysin the History ofCanadian LawVOLUME XITHE CANADASEdited by G. Blaine Bakerand Donald FysonThe Osgoode SocietyApprox. 584 pp / 6 x 9 / October 20133 figures, 2 tablesCloth 978-1-4426-4815-9$95.00 (£66.99) EeBook 978-1-4426-7006-8 $95.00Legal History / Canadian StudiesEssays in the History of Canadian LawVolume XI – The CanadasEdited by G. Blaine Baker and Donald FysonOsgoode Society for Canadian Legal HistoryThe essays in this volume deal with the legal history of the Province of Quebec, Upper and LowerCanada, and the Province of Canada between the British conquest of 1759 and confederationof the British North America colonies in 1867. The backbone of the modern Canadian provincesof Ontario and Quebec, this geographic area was unified politically for more than half of theperiod under consideration. As such, four of the papers are set in the geographic cradle ofmodern Quebec, four treat nineteenth-century Ontario, and the remaining four deal with theSt. Lawrence and Great Lakes watershed as a whole.The authors come from disciplines as diverse as history, socio-legal studies, women’sstudies, and law. The majority make substantial use of second-language sources in their essays,which shade into intellectual history, social and family history, regulatory history, and politicalhistory.G. Blaine Baker is an emeritus professor in the Faculty of Law at McGill University. DonaldFyson is a professor in the Department of History at l’Université Laval.UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS