New York Amish: Life in the Plain Communities of the Empire State

by Karen M. Johnson-Weiner

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501707604
• ISBN13: 9781501707605
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher