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  • Author: Cameron, Ardis

Date: 1995

Language: en

Find in a Library: 26932573

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New England women's labor history text from a professor of American and New England studies at the University of Southern Maine. Focuses on Lawrence, Massachusetts, as a town with a diversity of worker and ethnic experience, and the relationship…

  • Author: Dublin, Thomas

Date: 1979

Language: en

Find in a Library: 4805234

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From Columbia University Press: "In this prize-winning study, Thomas Dublin explores, in carefully researched detail, the lives and experiences of the first generation of American women to face the demands of industrial capitalism. Dublin describes…

  • Author: Frenette, Yves (rédacteur)
  • Author: PaÌ‚quet, Martin (rédacteur)
  • Author: Lamarre, Jean (rédacteur)

Date: 2002

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 50236360

Recuil d'essaies en l'honneur d'Yves Roby, un historien québécois, par ses collègues et ses anciens étudiants. Des études sur les sujets importants de la carrière de Roby: l'historiographie; "les espaces québecois et…

  • Author: Dublin, Thomas (editor)

Date: 1981 (1993)

Language: en

Find in a Library: 7203495

Find Online: OL9817988M

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From Columbia University Press: "Between 1820 and 1860, tens of thousands of single women streamed from rural New England to find work in the burgeoning factory towns of the region. In 'Farm to Factory' Thomas Dublin has selected five sets of letters…

  • Author: Amaron, Rev. Calvin Elijah

Date: 1885

Language: en

Find in a Library: 8068469

Find Online: OL11922618W

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Pamphlet published by Massachusetts Protestant evangelist, Calvin Elijah Amaron, toward the assimilation of French Canadian immigrants through conversion from Catholicism. Later developed and published in book form: "Your Heritage; or, New England…

  • Author: Arsenault, Bona

Date: 1978

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 5619093

Find Online: OL4704579W

Gros anthologie en six tomes sur les gens acadiens. La première partie est un histoire des peuples, et les autres parties sont divisées par les sujets et géographies suivant: 2) Port-Royal, 3) Beaubassin, Grand-Pré, 4) Pisiguit,…

  • Author: Schriver, Edward (editor)

Date: 1973

Language: English

Find in a Library: 3187379

Proceedings of a 1972 conference at the University of Maine on the subject of French culture in the northeastern borderlands of Maine and Canada. Contents include transcripts of the following presentations: "The Loyalists and the Acadians" "Le Centre…

  • Author: Hornsby, Stephen
  • Author: Konrad, Victor A.
  • Author: Herlan, James J.

Date: 1989

Language: English

Find Online: 21307276

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  • Author: LaVergne, Marcel

Date: 2008 February

Language: Français and English

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A brief and general history of French Canadian immigration to New England around the turn of the century, followed by a list of Franco-American writers, their works, and a selection of excerpts.

  • Author: Cumbler, John Taylor, Jr.

Date: 1979

Language: en

Find in a Library: 4492431

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Based on the research for Cumbler's 1974 dissertation, "Continuity and Disruption," this text is a narrower (twenty years fewer), illustrated exploration of ethnicity woven through the working-class communities of Lynn and Fall River, Massachusetts.…

  • Author: Casanova, Jacques Donat

Date: 1975

Language: en (translation)

Find in a Library: 4134570

Find Online: OL4288424M

A brief history of the French presence in North America. English translation of "Une Amérique française." From the text: "When we think of the French contribution to the history of the United States, we immediately think to Lafayette,…

  • Author: Tardivel, Jules Paul

Date: 1900

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 6856491

Find Online: OL6788369W

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Un histoire et critique de l'église Catholique aux États-Unis, écrit en deux parties par un scolaire français au Canada. Certaines réflexions sur le développement d'un catholicisme américain. Comparaisons entre des prévisions…

  • Author: Parker, James Hill

Date: 1983

Language: en

Find in a Library: 9082399

Sociological essay highlighting Franco American assimilation in a case-study of Lewiston, Maine. Includes a brief history of French Canadian immigration to Lewiston coinciding with the city's birth as an industrial center. Part of the preface reads,…

  • Author: Green, Constance McLaughlin

Date: 1939 (1968)

Language: en

Find in a Library: 1522230

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A study of labor and industry in Holyoke, Massachusetts, beginning with the city's agrarian traditions, and establishing later an emphasis on the city's industrialization at the end of the nineteenth century. Published during the Great Depression,…

  • Author: Creamer, Daniel Barnett
  • Author: Coulter, Charles Wellsley

Date: 1971

Language: en

Find in a Library: 241413

Reprinting of a 1939 publication funded by the Works Progress Administration. Exploration of the economic conditions in Manchester, New Hampshire, and the economic climate surrounding the mill complex of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Corporation. The…

  • Author: Cole, Donald

Date: 2002 (1963)

Language: en

Find in a Library: 475026

Find Online: OL7972822M

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A history of the city of Lawrence, Massachusetts, as a site of mass industrialization, diverse immigration, and unique dynamics of class and ethnicity around the turn of the 20th century. From UNC Press: "The violence and radicalism connected with…

  • Author: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Date: 2004

Language: English

Find in a Library: 56903271

Maine native Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem about "le Grand Dérangement" - the Acadian Expulsion - and one Acadian woman's rampant search for a love lost. This text also includes an introduction, a brief historical sketch of the Acadians,…

  • Author: Martineau, Malvina-E.

Date: 1940

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 36552011

Des écritures et un oraison funèbre d'un homme treÌ€s significatif au mouvement survivance aux Etats-Unis, un fondateur de la presse franco-américaine dans la Nouvelle Angleterre au dix-neuvième sieÌ€cle, et rédacteur ancien de…

  • Author: Le Jeune, R.P.L.

Date: 1990 (1918)

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 144748841 (peut être lu au Centre Franco-Américain, Université du Maine, Orono, Maine)

Une brève histoire de l'Acadie entre 1412 et 1800 (entre colonisation, le Grand Dérangement, et repopulation). Certaines descriptions d'événements significatives dans la courte durée de vie des premières communatés Acadiennes de…

  • Author: Arsenault, Bona [Bonaventure]

Date: 1978

Language: en

Find in a Library: 6252812

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Translation of the first volume of Arsenault's original historical collection, "Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens." This volume, "Histoire des Acadiens," attempts a comprehensive history of the Acadian people - their arrival in…

  • Author: Baird, Charles Washington

Date: 1885

Volume: 1

Language: en

Find in a Library: 8047731

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Late nineteenth-century historical text on the Huguenot emigration from a France in religious strife to the eastern coast of North America between the middle 16th and middle 18th centuries. According to the author, Volume 1 of this 2-volume text only…

  • Author: Ducharme, Jacques

Date: 1939

Language: English

Find in a Library: 884728

One of the first novels written in English by a Franco American on the long-told Canadian immigration narrative. Tells the tale of a family leaving Canada for the United States near the beginning of the twentieth century. From the author of the…

  • Author: Cormier, Robert

Date: 1974

Language: English

Find in a Library: 722968

Young adult novel about the violence of peer pressure and the search for adolescent identity. From Laurel Leaf Books: "Refusing to sell chocolates in the annual Trinity School fund-raiser may not seem like a radical thing to do. But when Jerry…

  • Author: Cormier, Robert

Date: 1965

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1407127

From Dell Publishing: "Tommy Bartin is 70 years old, retired, and lives in an infirmary. When he receives a windfall of $63.00, he heads downtown to resume his former existence and learns that life still holds many surprises--even for someone who…

  • Author: Cormier, Robert

Date: 1960

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1436332

Cormier's first novel, partly inspired by the death of his father, chronicles the life changes that come with the illness and potential death of his protagonist, Alph LeBlanc.

  • Author: Cormier, Robert

Date: 1977

Language: English

Find in a Library: 3925983

A back-and-forth between third- and first-person narration, "I Am The Cheese" is Adam's journey to visit his ailing father, as well as our own trip through Adam's returning memories as they are laid out in psychiatric therapy. From Knopf Publishing:…