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""Umble offers a historic perspective on how members of the close-knit communities and their leaders responded to the challenges posed by the intrusion of the telephone into long-standing traditions of work, silence, and visiting in the early 1900s... A book that is useful in fostering understanding of the origins, philosophy, and lifestyle of the Plain People and enjoyable for its often humorous account of what life was like in America before the telephone reached out and touched everyone." -- Harrisburg Patriot
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An unexpected history of the Mennonites and Amish
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Inside This Book Citations: This book cites 38 books | 8 books that cite this book Explore: Citations | Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Key Phrases - SIPs: telephone shanty, telephone debates, nonresistant principle, telephone rules, telephone ownership (more) Key Phrases - CAPs: New Holland, Telegraph Company, Lancaster Conference, Enterprise Telephone Company, Amish Mennonites (more) Browse Sample Pages: Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me! |
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My car threw up a cloud of dust as I drove down the gravel lane of a Lancaster County farm just after noon on a mild June day. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
telephone shanty, telephone debates, nonresistant principle, telephone rules, telephone ownership, rural subscribers, independent telephone company, community telephones, independent telephone companies, ordained leaders, worship patterns, ordained men Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Holland, Telegraph Company, Lancaster Conference, Enterprise Telephone Company, Amish Mennonites, John Martin, Intercourse Telephone Company, Groffdale Conference, Bishop Martin, Conestoga Valley, Pennsylvania Ruling, Alvin Glick, Conestoga Telephone Company, Grofdale Conference, North America, East Earl, Henry Hursh, Leaman Place, Holmes County, Kathryn Grubb, New York, Reports of Telephone Companies, Schleitheim Articles, Stoltzfus Papers, Terre Hill New!
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Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
My car threw up a cloud of dust as I drove down the gravel lane of a Lancaster County farm just after noon on a mild June day. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
telephone shanty, telephone debates, nonresistant principle, telephone rules, telephone ownership, rural subscribers, independent telephone company, community telephones, independent telephone companies, ordained leaders, worship patterns, ordained men Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Holland, Telegraph Company, Lancaster Conference, Enterprise Telephone Company, Amish Mennonites, John Martin, Intercourse Telephone Company, Groffdale Conference, Bishop Martin, Conestoga Valley, Pennsylvania Ruling, Alvin Glick, Conestoga Telephone Company, Grofdale Conference, North America, East Earl, Henry Hursh, Leaman Place, Holmes County, Kathryn Grubb, New York, Reports of Telephone Companies, Schleitheim Articles, Stoltzfus Papers, Terre Hill New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Lancaster County (Pictorial Discovery Guide) by Ed Klimuska on page 135, page 136, and Back Matter
- The Amish Struggle with Modernity by Donald B. Kraybill in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Amish and the State (Center Books in Anabaptist Studies) by Martin E. Marty in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The World of Goods: Towards an Anthropology of Consumption by Mary Douglas in Back Matter
- Gender on the Line: Women, the Telephone, and Community Life (Illinois Studies Communication) by Lana F. Rakow in Back Matter
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- On the Backroad to Heaven: Old Order Hutterites, Mennonites, Amish, and Brethren (Center Books in Anabaptist Studies) by Donald B. Kraybill in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Riddle of Amish Culture (Center Books in Anabaptist Studies) by Donald B. Kraybill in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Rumspringa: To Be or Not to Be Amish by Tom Shachtman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Amish in the American Imagination (Center Books in Anabaptist Studies) by David L. Weaver-Zercher in Back Matter
- The Riddle of Amish Culture (Center Books in Anabaptist Studies) by Donald B. Kraybill in