| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.2

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Steven D. Reschly. The Amish on the Iowa Prairie, 1840 to 1910. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, in cooperation with The Center for American Places, Santa Fe, N.Mex., and Harrisonburg, Va. 2000. Pp.x, 268. $42.50.

Tourists who do not know much about them typically assume that the Amish represent an unchanging, even stagnant way of life. Scholars who study the Amish know that contemporary Amish groups focus on a number of practices—such as gelassenheit (yielding oneself to God and the community of the faithful), physical labor (particularly small-scale farming), a wary embrace of limited means of technology, and separation from the larger world—to guide the community as it reshapes itself in response to challenges from the dominant culture. In his study of nineteenth-century Amish farmers on the Iowa frontier, Steven D. Reschly seeks to articulate the particular practices that allowed Amish settlers to adapt to frontier life even as they sought to maintain community coherence. . . .

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