Shipshewana: An Indiana Amish Community

A cultural history of a northern Indiana Amish community and its success in maintaining itself and resisting assimilation into the larger culture.

While most books about the Amish focus on the Pennsylvania settlements or on the religious history of the sect, this book is a cultural history of one Indiana Amish community and its success in resisting assimilation into the larger culture. Amish culture has persisted relatively unchanged primarily because the Amish view the world around them th...