- 280 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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About this book
Tracing Amish settlement in New York from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner draws on more than thirty years of participant-observation, interviews, and archival research to introduce the Amish to their non-Amish neighbors. In the last decade, New York State has had the fastest-growing Amish population. This work highlights the diversity of Amish settlement in New York State and the contribution of New York's Amish to the state's rich cultural heritage.
The second edition of New York Amish updates settlement areas to acknowledge recently established communities and to demonstrate the impact of growth, schism, and migration on existing settlements. In addition, chapters treating external and internal challenges to Amish settlement and the challenges Amish settlement poses to neighboring non-Amish communities have been updated, and a new chapter looks to the future of New York's Amish. All maps have been updated, and a new map showing all of New York's Amish communities has been added.
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Table of contents
- Preface
- 1 Who Are the Amish?: Meeting Our Plain Neighbors
- 2 Cattaraugus and Chautauqua Counties: Amish Pioneers in Western New York
- 3 St. Lawrence County’s Swartzentruber Amish: The Plainest of the Plain People
- 4 From Lancaster County to Lowville: Moving North to Keep the Old Ways
- 5 The Mohawk Valley Amish: Old Order Diversity in Central New York
- 6 In Search of Consensus and Fellowship: New York’s Swiss Amish
- 7 On Franklin County’s Western Border: New Settlements in the North Country
- 8 Challenges to Amish Settlement: Maintaining Community and Identity
- 9 Challenging the Non-Amish Neighbors: Uneasy Integration
- 10 The Future of New York’s Amish: Two Worlds, Side by Side
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix A. Existing Old Order Amish Settlements in New York (as of December 2015)
- Appendix B. Extinct Old Order Amish Settlements in New York
- Appendix C. Amish Migration and Population in New York State, 1983–2013
- Appendix D. Amish Divisions
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index