They Sought a Country: Mennonite Colonization in Mexico

They Sought a Country: Mennonite Colonization in Mexico by Harry Leonard Sawatzky is a deeply informed study of a religious community’s quest to preserve its identity through migration. The Mennonites, one of the oldest Protestant sects, originated in the Alps, moved across the North German plain and South Russia, and by the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries had established themselves in Pennsylvania and on the Canadian prairies. Their creed, rooted in scripture and interpreted through co...