Title Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian steppe : letters and papers of Johann Cornies. Volume I : 1812-1835 / translated by Ingrid I. Epp ; edited by Harvey L. Dyck, Ingrid I. Epp, and John R. Staples

Published Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2015] ©2015

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Description 1 online resource (lvi, 576 pages) : maps Series Tsarist and Soviet Mennonite Studies Tsarist and Soviet Mennonite studies. Contents Part One : Correspondence -- Part Two : Reports and studies by Johann Cornies -- Appendix I : Genealogy of Johann Cornies' immediate family -- Appendix II : List of correspondents -- Appendix III : Glossary -- Appendix IV : Chronology Summary In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Russian empire opened the grasslands of southern Ukraine to agricultural settlement. Among the immigrants who arrived were communities of Prussian Mennonites, recruited as "model colonists" to bring progressive agricultural methods to the east. 'Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian steppe' documents the Tsarist Mennonite experience through the papers of Johann Cornies (1789-1848), an ambitious and energetic leader of the Mennonite colony of Molochna. Cornies was well connected in the imperial government, and his papers offer a window not just into the world of the Molochna Mennonites but also into the Tsarist state's relationship with the national minorities of the frontier: Mennonites, Doukhbors, Nogai Tartars, and Jews. This selection of his letters and reports, translated into English, is an invaluable resource for scholars of all aspects of life in Tsarist Ukraine and for those interested in Mennonite history.-- Provided by publisher Notes Ingrid I. Epp is the former librarian of University College at the University of Toronto. Harvey L. Dyck is a professor emeritus in the History Department at the University of Toronto. John R. Staples is a professor of Russian and Soviet history at the State University of New York at Fredonia Print version record Subject Cornies, Johann, 1789-1848. Cornies, Johann, 1789-1848 -- Correspondence SUBJECT Cornies, Johann, 1789-1848 fast Subject Germans -- Ukraine, Southern -- Correspondence Mennonites -- Ukraine, Southern -- Correspondence Germans -- Ukraine, Southern -- History -- 19th century Mennonites -- Ukraine, Southern -- History -- 19th century HISTORY -- Europe -- Western. HISTORY -- General. Germans Mennonites Southern Ukraine Genre/Form personal correspondence. History Personal correspondence Personal correspondence. Correspondance privée. Form Electronic book Author Epp, Ingrid I. (Ingrid Ilse), translator, editor. Dyck, Harvey L. (Harvey Leonard), editor. Staples, John Roy, 1961- editor. Container of (work): Cornies, Johann, 1789-1848. Works. Selections. English ISBN 9781442622371 1442622377

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