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  • Author: Dublin, Thomas

Date: 1979

Language: en

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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…

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  • Author: Dublin, Thomas (editor)

Date: 1981 (1993)

Language: en

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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…

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  • Author: Leamon, James S.
  • Author: Michaud, Charlotte

Date: 1974

Language: English

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The first book in a series on the history of Lewiston, Maine, Historic Lewiston, from the Lewiston Historical Commission. Historic Lewiston: Franco-American Origins is a 47-page overview of Lewiston’s Franco American past, divided into two…

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  • Author: Anderson, Elin L.

Date: 1937

Language: English

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Book-length 1937 demographic study of Burlington, Vermont - as a New England hub, as an American city in itself, and as a microcosm of American democracy. This book was a product of Vermont's 1930s Eugenics Survey that studied local demographics, and…

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  • Author: Armstrong, John Borden

Date: 1969

Language: en

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Nearly two hundred years of history in a New Hampshire town. Harrisville's businesses and communities, the production of its farms, and the centrality of its mills. The economic, political, and social transformations of Harrisville laid out…

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  • Author: Rouillard, Jacques

Date: 1985

Language: fr

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Un portrait historique des travailleurs canadiens-français aux États-Unis, dans les usines de la Nouvelle-Angleterre, au prémiere moitié du 20e siècle. Les synthèses historiques de l'immigration et du travail, avec certaines…

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  • Author: Hudson, Susan Pearman

Date: 2006

Language: en

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From Routledge: "The book recognizes the achievements by a nineteenth-century community of women religious, the Grey Nuns of Lewiston, Maine. The founding of their hospital was significant in its time as the first hospital in that factory city, and…

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  • Author: Searles, James
  • Author: Morse, Kent
  • Author: Hinchman, Stephen

Date: 1982

Language: en

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From the preface: "This book is the culmination of a two-year project conducted by Hyde School students and faculty. With the backing of grants from the Ethnic Heritage Studies Division, Office of Education, and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation,…

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  • Author: Olivier, Julien

Date: 1981

Language: Français

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  • Author: Truesdell, Leon Edgar

Date: 1943

Language: English

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Scientific study of cross-border populations, ethnicity, language, and occupation as they are made evident by Canadians and Americans in each other's homeland. Complete with tables, maps, and diagrams that illustrate various demographic figures. From…

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  • Author: Hendrickson, Dyke

Date: 2010

Language: en

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An "Images of America" pictorial history that illustrates parts of the Franco-American experience in Maine, Maine's people, and the things and places that occupied their lives. Chapters run as follows: 1)Work, 2)Family, 3)Religious Life, 4)Community,…

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  • Author: Locke, William

Date: 1946

Language: en

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Brief history of early French Canadian immigrant community in the town of Brunswick, Maine, beginning in 1850. Written by a scholar of linguistics and author of "Pronunciation of the French spoken at Brunswick, Maine" (1949).

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  • Author: Santerre, Richard

Date: 1972

Language: en

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Brief history of the Franco American people and their Roman Catholic parishes of Lowell, Massachusetts, from early periods of French Canadian immigration up to the 1970s.

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  • Author: Rodrigue, Barry Hadfield

Date: 1994

Language: en

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Critical biography of Tom Plant, leader in the shoe industry of New England near the turn of the twentieth century, situated in the Bath, Maine, area. Refutes and diversifies the stereotypical notion of the French Canadian immigrant worker experience…

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  • Author: Lee, Anthony W.

Date: 2008

Language: en

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A history of photography, shoemaking, mining, and immigration as they converged on North Adams, Massachusetts, in the 1870s. From the text: "...[this book] is concerned...with the industrialization of a New England craft at one of its key historical…

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  • Author: Kelly, Richard

Date: 1956

Language: en

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A biographical tribute to nine members of the Textile Workers Union of America, represented in mills across the industrial United States. Characterization of conditions at various mills, including those in Fall River, Massachusetts, and Cohoes, New…

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  • Author: Lamarre, Jean

Date: 2003

Language: en

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From Wayne State University Press: "'The French Canadians of Michigan' looks at the factors behind the French Canadian immigration by providing a statistical profile of the migratory movement as well as analysis of the strategies used by French…

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  • Author: Lawrence, Benjamin

Date: 1912

Language: en

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1912 history of the city of Jay in Franklin County, Maine, situated alongside the Androscoggin River. Gives a brief background sketch of the Native American presence there; historical profile detailed from the town's 1795 incorporation to the turn of…

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  • Author: Leane, John
  • Author: Burns, Elliot E. "Bud"

Date: 2005

Language: en

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Comprehensive history of the city of Rumford, Maine. Revised edition of the text that spanned from pre-incorporation to 1972. Updates extend to the year 2000. The Androscoggin River city in western Maine - its people, significant events, the paper…

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  • Author: Levasseur, Raymond Luc

Date: 2002

Language: en

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Ray Luc Levasseur's statements from the 1989 criminal trial where he represented himself against accusations of racketeering. He places himself and a working-class Franco (Sanford, Maine) upbringing in the course of an American class struggle,…

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  • Author: Bellerose, Robert

Date: 2004

Language: en

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Arcadia's "Images of America" series revisits the pre- and post-industrial city of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, with pictures that span the period from 1834 to 2000. Transitional American urban and riverbank landscapes across two centuries, through…

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  • Author: Clarke, Maurice D.
  • Author: Clarke, John Badger

Date: 1875

Language: en

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Subtitled, "A brief record of its past and a picture of its present, including an account of its settlement and of its growth as a town and city a history of its schools, churches, societies, banks." 1875 history of Manchester, New Hampshire. Begins…

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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.

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  • Author: Handlin, Oscar

Date: 1959

Language: en

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Varied selections of scholarship, speeches, interviews, and articles that, according to the author, "attempt to illustrate the immigration contribution to American civilization and the forces which brought the movement to a close" (Handlin, intro).…

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  • Author: Daniels, Roger

Date: 2002

Language: en

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Comprehensive history of immigration to the United States from the 17th to the 21st century. Divided into [ ] parts: Colonial America; The Century of Immigration (1820-1924); and Modern Times.

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  • Author: Heffernan, Nancy Coffey
  • Author: Stecker, Anne Page

Date: 1986

Language: en

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From University Press of New England: "A classic history of New Hampshire’s economic and political development, now updated for the twenty-first century....From fiercely ambitious and independent colonial towns to the media circus of the…

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  • Author: Cumbler, John Taylor, Jr.

Date: 1979

Language: en

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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.…

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  • Author: Craig, Béatrice

Date: 2009

Language: en

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From University of Toronto Press: "In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a local economy made up of settlers, loggers, and business people from Lower Canada, New Brunswick, and New England was established on the banks of the Upper…

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  • Author: Plocher, Stephen

Date: 2007

Language: en

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A brief history of Waterville, Maine, written by a graduate of Waterville's Colby College and published online by the city government of Waterville. Begins with the city's peopling, moving through the town's incorporation apart from Winslow in 1802,…

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  • Author: Dublin, Thomas

Date: 1992

Language: en

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From the inside cover: "Lowell, Massachusetts, was America's first large-scale planned industrial community. After its establishment as a town in 1826, Lowell was celebrated for its innovative textile technology and its unique workforce of young…

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