Royden Loewen

Biographic Data

ID229144
NAMERoyden Loewen
GIVEN NAMESRoyden
FAMILY NAMELoewen
SIGNATURELOEWEN R
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Winnipeg
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS29
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT29
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1992
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX2

  • Farms, Faith and Foibles: A Meditation Three Years After Submitting Seven Points on Earth

    Royden LoewenARTICLEJournal of the Canadian…2023

    Farms, Faith and Foibles: A Meditation Three Years After Submitting Seven Points on Earth. Un article de la revue Journal of the Canadian Historical Association / Revue de la Société historique du Canada (Volume 33, numéro 2, 2023, p. 1-254) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit

  • The Medical and the Anti-Modern: Horse-and-Buggy Mennonite Migrants and Medicine in Latin America

    Royden LoewenARTICLEHistoire sociale2019

    How did migrants from "old" societies negotiate their "new worlds"? How did they make the move from simple to complex societies, from village culture to urban society, from folk medicine to modern, state-sanctioned medicine? In this essay, I explore the question of medicine and social boundaries in an instance in which this trajectory of the primitive-to-the-modern has been complicated. It considers the medical history within a recent set of migr…

  • David L. Weaver-Zercher. Martyrs Mirror: A Social History

    Open AccessRoyden LoewenARTICLEThe American Historical Review2018

    In 1660 a thirty-five-year-old Mennonite minister, Thielemann van Braght of Dordrecht in the Netherlands, completed the immense task of publishing a 1,500-page martyrology, the Martyrs Mirror. The book, whose featured martyrs are mostly Dutch Mennonites, marked the zenith of various collections of martyr stories published in the Netherlands shortly after the onset of religious freedom following William of Orange’s rebellion against the Spanish du…

  • The Steel Wheel: From Progress to Protest and Back Again in Canada, Mexico, and Bolivia

    Royden Loewen, Royden Loewen Royden Loewen et al.ARTICLEAgricultural History2018

    Royden Loewen, Ben Nobbs-Thiessen, The Steel Wheel: From Progress to Protest and Back Again in Canada, Mexico, and Bolivia, Agricultural History, Vol. 92, No. 2, Artifacts in Agraria (Spring 2018), pp. 172-189

  • “Come Watch This Spider”: Animals, Mennonites, and Indices of Modernity

    Open AccessRoyden LoewenARTICLECanadian Historical Review2015

    Historians have increasingly written the animal into the narratives of social history. Broad studies document how humans managed animals, related to them, and were affected by them. Many of these studies critique the separation of humans from animals during the rise of an urban, commercialized society. Collectively, however, these works also present inter-species relations as an index of modernization – the rise of the classically “liberal” socie…

  • Competing Cosmologies: Reading Migration and Identity in an Ethno-religious Newspaper

    Royden LoewenARTICLEHistoire sociale2015References: 2

    Entre 1977 et 2000, le Mennonitische Post , un journal qui a son siège au Canada, publia des milliers de lettres provenant de membres d’une incomparable diaspora. La communauté étendue des mennonites dont les grands-parents avaient émigré du Canada dans les années 1920 afin de résister à l’imposition d’écoles publiques de langue anglaise redécouvrit alors des liens anciens dans les pages de ce journal. Il s’agissait cependant d’une communauté div…

  • Young, Well-Educated, and Adaptable: Chilean Exiles in Ontario and Quebec, 1973-2010

    Francis Peddie, Royden LoewenBOOKYoung, Well-Educated, and Adaptable2014

    Between 1973 and 1978, six thousand Chileans leftists took refuge in central Canada after the Pinochet coup d’état. Once resettled at the northern extreme of the Americas, these political exiles had to find ways of coping with an abrupt and violent separation from their homeland that had deep material and emotional repercussions. In Young, Well-Educated, and Adaptable, Francis Peddie documents the experiences of twenty-one Chileans as they naviga…

  • Red Quarter Moon: A Search for Family in the Shadow of Stalin , by Anne Konrad

    Open AccessRoyden LoewenARTICLEJournal of History2014

  • On Behalf of the Family Farm: Iowa Farm Women's Activism since 1945

    Royden LoewenARTICLEJournal of American History2014Cited by: 2

    Journal Article On Behalf of the Family Farm: Iowa Farm Women's Activism since 1945 Get access Jenny Barker Devine. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2013. xiv, 188 pp. Paper, $19.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 1, June 2014, Page 330, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau265 Published: 01 June 2014

  • Village Among Nations: "Canadian" Mennonites in a Transnational World, 1916-2006

    Royden LoewenBOOKVillage among Nations2013

    Village among Nations recuperates a missing chapter of Canadian history: the story of traditionalist Mennonites who emigrated from Canada for cultural reasons, but then in later generations "returned" in large numbers for economic and social security

  • Wet Prairie: People, Land and Water in Agricultural Manitoba

    Open AccessRoyden LoewenARTICLEJournal of Historical Geography2013

  • Rudoph J. Vecoli: Incisive, Innovative, Inclusive

    Royden LoewenARTICLEJournal of American Ethnic History2011References: 3

    Research Article| April 01 2011 Rudoph J. Vecoli: Incisive, Innovative, Inclusive Royden Loewen Royden Loewen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2011) 30 (3): 41–47. https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.30.3.0041 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Royden Loewen; Rudoph J. Vecoli: Incisive, Innovative, Inclusive. Journal of American Ethnic History 1 …

  • Gatekeepers: Reshaping Immigrant Lives in Cold War Canada (review)

    Marilyn Barber, Royden Loewen et al.ARTICLEHistoire sociale2010References: 1

    Reviewed by: Gatekeepers: Reshaping Immigrant Lives in Cold War Canada Marilyn Barber, Royden Loewen, Elise Chenier, Magda Fahrni, and Franca Iacovetta Franca Iacovetta — Gatekeepers: Reshaping Immigrant Lives in Cold War Canada. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2006 (winner of the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, Canadian Historical Association, 2008). Marilyn Barber, Carleton University During the 2009 Annual General Meeting of the Canadian Historical A…

  • Immigrants in Prairie Cities: Ethnic Diversity in Twentieth-Century Canada

    Royden Loewen, Gerald FriesenBOOKImmigrants in Prairie Cities2009

    Over the course of the twentieth century, sequential waves of immigrants from Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa settled in the cities of the Canadian Prairies. In Immigrants in Prairie Cities, Royden Loewen and Gerald Friesen analyze the processes of cultural interaction and adaptation that unfolded in these urban centres and describe how this model of diversity has changed over time. The authors argue that intimate Prairie cities fostered …

  • Gatekeepers: Reshaping Immigrant Lives in Cold War Canada

    Royden LoewenARTICLEJournal of American Ethnic History2008

    Book Review| April 01 2008 Gatekeepers: Reshaping Immigrant Lives in Cold War Canada Gatekeepers: Reshaping Immigrant Lives in Cold War Canada, Franca Iacovetta. Royden Loewen Royden Loewen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2008) 27 (3): 112–114. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501839 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Royden Loew…

  • An Amish Patchwork: Indiana’s Old Order in the Modern World

    Royden LoewenARTICLEAgricultural History2008

    Book Review| April 01 2008 An Amish Patchwork: Indiana’s Old Order in the Modern World An Amish Patchwork: Indiana’s Old Order in the Modern World. Thomas J. Meyers and Steven M. Nolt.Amish Life: Living Simply and Serving God. Darryl D. Jones. Royden Loewen Royden Loewen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2008) 82 (2): 249–251. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-82.2.249 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share …

  • Beyond the Monolith of Modernity: New Trends in Immigrant and Ethnic Rural History

    Royden LoewenARTICLEAgricultural History2007References: 2

    This article suggests that the idea of "modernization," the uni-linear transition from peasantry to commercial agriculture, has shaped much of the writing of rural immigrant communities during the twentieth century. It also suggests that the history of immigrant and ethnic farm communities has begun to take a different tack during the last decade. This change reflects trends in the broader historiography of settlement society, including a shift f…

  • Diaspora in the Countryside: Two Mennonite Communities and Mid-Twentieth Century Rural Disjuncture

    Royden LoewenBOOKDiaspora in the Countryside2006

  • Garden Spot: Lancaster County, the Old Order Amish, and the Selling of Rural America

    Royden LoewenARTICLEAgricultural History2005

    Book Review| July 01 2005 Garden Spot: Lancaster County, the Old Order Amish, and the Selling of Rural America Garden Spot: Lancaster County, the Old Order Amish, and the Selling of Rural America. David J. Walbert. Royden Loewen Royden Loewen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2005) 79 (3): 385–386. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-79.3.385 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Si…

  • Hidden Worlds: Revisiting the Mennonite Migrants of the 1870s

    Frederick C Luebke, Royden LoewenARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2003

  • Finding Our Way: Rethinking Ethnocultural Relations in Canada

    Royden LoewenREVIEWInternational Migration Review2000

    Many people think that ethnocultural politics in Canada are spiralling out of control, with ever more groups making ever greater demands. This book offers a more balanced and optimistic picture. It argues that we have learned many important lessons about how to accommodate ethnocultural diversity, lessons which can help us tackle the challenges still facing us. The first half of the book examines the situation of ethnic groups formed by immigrati…

  • Mennonites in American Society, 1930-1970: Modernity and the Persistence of Religious Community

    Royden Loewen, Paul ToewsARTICLEJournal of American History1998Cited by: 2

    Journal Article Mennonites in American Society, 1930–1970: Modernity and the Persistence of Religious Community. By Paul Toews. (Scottdale: Herald, 1996. 441 pp. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8361-3117-7.) Get access Royden Loewen Royden Loewen University of Winnipeg Winnipeg, Canada Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 4, March 1998, Pages 1552–1553, https://doi.org/10.230…

  • Family, Church and Market: A Mennonite Community in the Old and the New Worlds, 1850-1930

    La Vern J Rippley, Royden Loewen et al.ARTICLEThe German Quarterly1995

  • Jews Inventing Ethnicity: A Review Essay

    Royden Loewen, Ruth A Frager et al.ARTICLELabour / Le Travail1995

    At FIRST GLANCE only the ethnicity of their subjects link these two histories of the Jewish experience in Canada. Taking Root, exquisitely written by a senior Cana dian historian, is a comprehensive account of the history of the Canadian Jewish community over two centuries, from the 1760s to the 1920s; Sweatshop Strife is a case study of an urban working-class community over a 40 year period in which Jewish ethnicity was just one of several facto…

  • Family, Church, and Market: A Mennonite Community in the Old and New Worlds, 1850-1930

    Theron F Schlabach, Royden Loewen et al.ARTICLELabour / Le Travail1995