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  • Author: Handlin, Oscar

Date: 1959

Language: en

Find in a Library: 421652

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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: Handlin, Oscar

Date: 1972

Language: en

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American immigration history in photos by the author of the award-winning historical piece, "The Uprooted."

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  • 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.…

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  • Author: Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of Maine

Date: 1937

Language: en

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State guidebook produced by the Maine Works Progress Administration's Federal Writers' Project in the 1930s. Installment in the American Guide Series: a collection of state travel guides and coffee tables books. Includes extensive descriptions of…

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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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  • Author: Moran, William

Date: 2002

Language: en

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A history of New England women during industrialization, and the lifestyle differences among women of different economic classes. From Thomas Dunne Books: "This is a masterful, definitive, and eloquent look at the enormous cultural and economic…

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  • 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,…

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  • Author: Green, Constance McLaughlin

Date: 1939 (1968)

Language: en

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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,…

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  • 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…

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  • Author: Cole, Donald

Date: 2002 (1963)

Language: en

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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…

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  • Author: BrieÌ€re, Eloise

Date: 1986

Language: en; fr

Find in a Library: 34578272

French heritage travel and resource guide to New York state, divided by region and described by town and city. From the foreword to the text: "Continuing the tradition begun in the 17th century, French and Canadian ties flourish in New York which…

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  • Author: Scontras, Charles A.

Date: 1994

Language: en

Find in a Library: 31188167

A restorative history of the birth and early life of organized labor in Maine in the middle of the nineteenth century, on the rise of the industrial period. From the preface: "The history of organized labor in Maine has been ignored by the State's…

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  • Author: Connors-Carlson, Shirlee

Date: 2001

Language: en

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A pictorial history of life and logging in St. John, Maine, at the beginning of the twentieth century. Includes some pictures that are featured in the book "Acadian Hard Times" (Stewart Doty, 1991), as well as many others that capture the households…

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  • Author: Fairfield, Roy P.

Date: 1956 (2003)

Language: en

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A history of the coastal and industrial city of Saco, Maine, from its inception to the 1950s. Written by a Saco native. The inside cover reads: "In a rich and vivid history, documented with record, with facts bearing evidence of infinitely rewarding…

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  • Author: Rathbone-McCuan, Eloise (editor)
  • Author: Havens, Betty (editor)

Date: 1988

Language: English

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A study in sociology and gerontology. Comparative Canadian and United States perspectives on aging and the elderly. Observations on the social policies, demographics, geographies, and cultural realities of both countries in the context of family…

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  • Author: Dunwell, Steve

Date: 1978

Language: en

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A chronicle of centuries of labor in black and white photographs. Historical and modern perspectives on mills, industrial towns, and workers in New England from the earliest industrialization period to the 1970s. From the inside flap: "The full force…

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  • Author: Allain, Mathé (editor)
  • Author: Brasseaux, Carl A. (editor)

Date: 1982

Volume: 7 of 8

Language: en

Find in a Library: 65236969 (volumes 1 through 6)

Volume 7 of an eight-part series on Franco American history and life. Concerned specifically with "Postbellum Louisiana." Contains the following essays: "The Splendid Mystery of the Civil Code of Louisiana" - Albert Tate, Jr., "Early New Orleans…

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  • Author: Allain, Mathé (editor)
  • Author: Brasseaux, Carl A. (editor)

Date: 1982

Volume: 8 of 8

Language: en; fr

Find in a Library: 6523696 (volumes 1 through 6)

Volume 8 of an eight-part series on Franco American history and life. Concerned specifically with "French Louisiana in the Twentieth Century." Contains the following essays: "Les Acadiens au XXe siecle" - Margeurite Roman, "Acadians and Acadians" -…

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  • Author: Dubay, Guy F.

Date: 1976

Language: Français and English

Find in a Library: 2624099

With Justice For All leads its reader through the drama surrounding the potential 1876 eviction of French families from their homes on disputed land in the St. John River Valley of Aroostook County, Maine. A play in two languages, and a play that…

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  • Author: Dorson, Richard

Date: 1964

Language: English

Find in a Library: 492749

From University of Chicago Press: "Their tales, songs, riddles, proverbs, games, superstitions, and customs provide a wealth of living folklore presented here as it was recorded in the field. And this unvarnished folklore fact retains the spicy…

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  • Author: Beaupré, Norman

Date: 2005

Language: Français

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De Llumina Press: "...l'histoire de sa [Beaupré] grand-mere maternelle venue du Québec avec son mari et leurs dix enfants pour prendre demeure aux Etats-Unis dans un village du New Hampshire."

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  • Author: Bald, Margaret

Date: 2006

Language: English

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Large collection of profiles of different works of literature, including Grace Metalious' "Peyton Place." From Infobase Publishing: "'Literature Suppressed on Religious Grounds, Revised Edition' profiles the censorship of many such essential works of…

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  • Author: Jarvis, Charles E.

Date: 1973

Language: English

Find in a Library: 2737349

Biography of Jack Kerouac published in his hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts.

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  • Author: Tomasi, Mari

Date: 1949

Language: English

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1940s novel on immigrant stone-cutters of Green Mountain State granite. Explores in specific the Italian American worker experience. "Like Lesser Gods" was republished in 1988 by the New England Press. Written by former Vermont Writers' Project…

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  • Author: Shreve, Anita

Date: 2000

Language: English

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From Little, Brown, and Company: "Everywhere hailed for its emotional intensity and unflagging narrative momentum, this magnificent novel transports us to the turn of the twentieth century, to the world of a prominent Boston family summering on the…

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  • Author: Ledoux, Denis (editor)

Date: 1991

Language: English

Find in a Library: 23009726

In this 1991 anthology, Denis Ledoux places together the poetry and short fiction prose of thirteen authors in an effort to illustrate the range of the contemporary Franco-American artistic voice. All of the pieces included in this collection might…

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  • Author: Le Blanc, Barbara

Date: 2003 June

Language: English (with français)

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From Gaspereau Press: "In 'Postcards from Acadie,' Barbara Le Blanc explores the cultural and symbolic resonance of the Grand Pré National Historic site...Excavating the political and cultural symbols that have shaped Grand Pré, Le Blanc…

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  • Author: Theriault, George F.

Date: 1951

Thesis Type: Ph. D., Sociology

Institution: Harvard University

Language: en

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A dissertation in sociology on the Franco Americans of Nashua, New Hampshire, previous to 1950, their community culture, and the implications of American assimilation on their social, linguistic, and religious norms.

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  • Author: Takai, Yukari

Date: 1999

Thesis Type: Ph. D., History

Institution: Université de Montréal

Language: en

Find in a Library: 46428729

From Takai: "'Migration, Family, and Gender: A Longitudinal Study of French-Canadian Immigrants in Lowell , Massachusetts , 1900-1920,' explores migration from French Canada to a New England urban centre of the textile industry, Lowell,…

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  • Author: Silvia, Philip Thomas, Jr.

Date: 1973

Thesis Type: Ph. D., History

Institution: Fordham University

Language: en

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The place of Fall River, Massachusetts, in the United States' 19th-century industrial boom, its ensuing period of immigration and cultural diversification, and the birth of the American middle class. A massive and in-depth dissertation that pays…

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