Religion and Rural Internationalism in the Nineteenth-Century Middle West: The Global Consciousness of Rural Dutch Middle Westerners,1865–1901

This project asks: How did underlying religious worldviews inform the local, national, and global engagement of rural middle western Dutch communities in the nineteenth century, which are often characterized as isolated and provincial? More broadly, it queries, if the local, national, and global are united by this broad religious worldview, how does that transform our understandings of rural middle western ethnic enclaves and who contributed to the rich internationalism of the nineteenth century and from where? Close examination of these rural middle western ethnic enclaves reveals not only an... Mehr ...