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They absorb very disparate societal lessons while being shaped by particular faith outlooks, historical memory, and the natural environment.   The book reveals the ways in which modern-day Mennonite farmers have adjusted to diverse temperatures, precipitation, soil types, and relative degrees of climate change. These farmers have faced broad global forces of modernization during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, from commodity markets and intrusive governments to technologies marked increasingly by the mechanical, chemical, and genetic. Based on more than 150 interviews and close textual analysis of memoirs, newspapers, and sermons, the narrative follows, among others, Zandile Nyandeni of Matopo as she hoes the spring-fed soils of Matabeleland's semi-arid savannah; Vladimir Friesen of Apollonovka, Siberia, who no longer heeds the dictates of industrial time of the Soviet-era state farm; and Abram Enns of Riva Palacio, Bolivia, who tells how he, a horse-and-buggy traditionalist, hired bulldozers to clear-cut a farm in the eastern lowland forests to grow soybeans, initially leading to dust bowl conditions.   As Mennonites, Loewen writes, these farmers were raised with knowledge of the historic Anabaptist teachings on community, simplicity, and peace that stood alongside ideas on place and sustainability. Nonetheless, conditioned by gender, class, ethnicity, race, and local values, they put their agricultural ideas into practice in remarkably diverse ways. 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Written approachably by two leading scholars and historians. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Perhaps the most inclusive, sweeping, and insightful history ever written about the North American Mennonite saga. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Both authors are eminent historians. Royden Loewen is Professor of History, with a chair in Mennonite Studies, at the University of Winnipeg. Steven M. Nolt is Professor of History at Goshen (IN) College. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Both authors of this book bring to the task the insights of social history. As such, they focus on people in many geographical environments rather than on institutional development and theological controversy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Readable, understandable, and incisive. 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