Amish Patchwork

Thomas J. Meyers, Professor of Sociology and Director of International Education at Goshen College, is author of numerous articles on the Indiana Amish and has conducted extensive field research among LaGrange and Elkhart Amish groups. He lives in Goshen, Indiana.Steven M. Nolt, Associate Professor of History at Goshen College, is author of Amish Enterprise: From Plows to Profits (with Donald Kraybill); A History of the Amish; Foreigners in Their Own Land: Pennsylvania Germans in the Early Republic; and other publications on the Amish and Old Order groups. He lives in Goshen, Indiana.

• ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Who Are These People?1. The Old Orders: In the World but Not of It2. Moving to Indiana3. Maintaining the Old Order4. Amish Ethnicity: Pennsylvania Dutch and Swiss5. Community and Family Life6. Amish Schools7. Amish Work: Farm, Factory, Carpentry, and Cottage Industry8. The Amish and Their Neighbors9. A Different Part of the Patchwork: Indiana's Old Order MennonitesAfterword: The Patchwork in the Modern WorldNotesFor Further ReadingIndex