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BIBLIOGRAPHY A NOTE ON THE SOURCES A substantial number of scholarly studies have been done on the Old Order Amish. Typically these have centered on communities in Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Ohio, with few works specifically treating life in Iowa. The lack of material on Iowa and the surrounding states is particularly evident since so many new Amish communities have been established in the Midwest since 1950. The first book written on the Amish was in 1894 by an Iowan, Barthinius L. Wick, and was entitled The Amish Mennonites. Of more contemporary interest, however, are the studies conducted since 1939. In that year Melvin Gingerich wrote The Mennonites in Iowa, in which he devoted several chapters to the life-style of the Iowa Old Order Amish. In Pennsylvania the pioneer study of the Old Order was done in 1942 by Walter Kollmorgen, Culture of a Contemporary Rural Community . Kollmorgen conducted the project as a part of a Rural Life Studies program sponsored by the United States Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Amish Society, the first definitive work on the Old Order Amish, was written by John Hostetler in 1963 and revised in 1968. In this sociological study, Hostetler analyzed all facets of Amish life, centering on Amish populations in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Hostetler also has written numerous articles, including an Annotated Bibliography on the Old Order Amish published in 1951. Hostetler's most recent work, Children in Amish Society, was coauthored with Gertrude Huntington in 1972 and deals primarily with the Amish educational system. Aside from the Amish material included in Gingerich's book, the only other studies dealing specifically with the Iowa Amish have been in the area of education. The development of the school controversy in 178 BIBLIOGRAPHY 179 Iowa in the 1960s was covered by Harrell R. Rodgers, J r., in his opinion and attitude study, Community Conflict, Public Opinion and the Law. published in 1969. Donald Hayes treated Old Order Amish education in a general way in his Ph.D. dissertation, "The Iowa Amish and Their Education," completed in 1972. The following bibliography indicates the sources used in this study as well as including the earliest and most significant Amish studies such as those cited above. It is not intended, however, to be comprehensive regarding all phases of Amish society nor to cover all geographical areas. For those interested in works relating to the Old Order Amish in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana, the bibliography in Hostetler's Amish Society provides a complete listing. For any topic to Mennonite history, Mennonite religion, or specific individuals who have been prominent in that church as well as any Mennonite settlement, the four volumes of The Mennonite Encyclopedia provide the most complete information. Books Bachmann, Calvin George. The Old Order Amish of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Breinigsville, Pa.: Pennsylvania German Society, 1942. Reprinted in 1961. Gingerich, Melvin. The Mennonites in Iowa. Iowa State Historical SOl'lPlcv of Iowa, 1939. ---. Mennonite Attire through Four Centuries. Breinigsville, Pa.: Pennsylvania German Society, 1970. Hostetler, John A. Amish Society, rev. ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1968. --_. An Annotated Bibliography on the Old Order Amish. Scottdale, Pa.: Mennonite Publishing House, 1951. Hostetler, John A.; and Huntington, Gertrude. Children in Amish Society. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972. Keirn, Albert N. Compulsory Education and the Amish: The Right Not to Be Modern. Boston: Beacon Press, 1975. Kollmorgen, Walter. Culture ofa Contemporary Rural Community: The Old Order Amish of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Rural Life Studies No. 106. Washington, D.C.: USGPO, 1942. Miller, Levi, ed. Mennonite Yearbook and Directory. Sixty-Fourth Yearbook of the Mennonite Church. Scottdale, Pa.: Mennonite Publishing House, 1973. Mennonite Encyclopedia, 4 vols. Scottdale, Pa.: Mennonite Publishing House; Hillsboro, Kans.: Mennonite Brethren Publishing House; BIBLIOGRAPHY Publication Office, 1955· 180 and North Newton, Kans.: Mennonite 1959. Rodgers, Harrell R., Jr. Community Conflict, Public Opinion and the Law. Columbus, Ohio: Charles E. Merrill, 1969. Schwieder, Dorothy, ed. Agrarian Stability in Utopian Societies: A Comparison of Economic Practices of Old Order Amish and Hut· terites. In Patterns and Perspectives in Iowa History. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1973. Simons, Menno. The Complete Writings of Menno Simons, Leonard Verduin, trans.; John C. Wenger. ed. Scottdale, Pa.: Mennonite Publishing House, 1956. Warner, J. A.; and Denlinger, J. M. The Gentle People. Soudersburg, Pa.: Mill Bridge Museum, 1969. Wenger, John C. Glimpses of Mennonite History. Scottdale, Pa.: Mennonite Publishing House, 1940. Wick, Barthinius L. The Amish Mennonites: A Sketch of Their Origin, and of Their Settlement in Iowa. Iowa City: State...

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