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- Author: Rosenzweig, Roy
Date: 2002 (1983)
Language: en
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Study of the off-hours lives of working-class people in the industrial city of Worcester, Massachusetts. Workers' hobbies, their hangouts, and the impact of their leisure on the workplace and politics in the immigration era. A fresh social history of…
- Author: Toth, Emily
Date: 1981
Language:
Find in a Library: 7247649
Biography of Manchester, New Hampshire author Grace Metalious. Famous for her novel "Peyton Place" and its various film adaptations. Emily Toth is also the biographer of novelist Kate Chopin.
From University Press of Mississippi: "The juicy…
From University Press of Mississippi: "The juicy…
- Author: Bonier, Marie Louise
Date: 1997
Language: en (translation)
Find in a Library: 38077916
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English translation of 1920's "DeÌbuts de la colonie franco-ameÌricaine de Woonsocket, Rhode Island." A rich and in-depth portrayal of the birth of one of Rhode Island's largest Franco-American communities. Divided into three parts: town…
- Author: Lucey, William Leo, S.J.
Date: 1957
Language: en
Find in a Library: 2313353
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Summary history of the Roman Catholic Church in Maine, with a mentioning or profile of each parish and major Catholic center in the state, beginning with the colonial period and ending in 1955. From the author: "I have selected and described what…
- Author: Sterne, Evelyn Savidge
Date: 2003
Language: en
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From Cornell University Press: "Through her account of the newcomers' fight for political inclusion, Evelyn Savidge Sterne offers a fresh perspective on the nationwide struggle to define American identity at the turn of the twentieth century....In a…
- Author: Hughes, Everett Cherrington
Date: 1943 (2009)
Language: en
Find in a Library: 2099208
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From Oxford University Press, 2009 edition: "'French Canada in Transition' is a landmark study of the impact of rapid industrialization on small French Canadian communities. First published in 1943 by the University of Chicago Press, it remains one…
- Author: Brault, Gerard J.
Date: 1960
Language: fr; en
A documentation of results from language tests given to Franco Americans in the late 1950s. Considers local vocabulary and phonetics. From the document's abstract: "The interviews were designed to illustrate the chief features of the French spoken by…
- Author: Rollins, Joan H.
Date: 1981
Language: English
Find in a Library: 7945064
Collection of essays on acculturation, assimilation, and minority ethnic groups otherwise generally overlooked. A majority emphasis on ethnicity in Rhode Island and New England.
Contains the following essays by their respective authors:…
Contains the following essays by their respective authors:…
- Author: Beaupré, Norman R.
Date: 2006
Language: English
Find in a Library: 85854514
The life of a young man after graduating college, his battle with AIDS, and his friendship with a mentor and former professor, Norman Beaupré, as read through a chronological series of personal letters. From the author's website: "What would you…
- Author: Fisher, James Terence
Date: 1989
Language: en
Find in a Library: 19130477
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Examination of immigrant Catholic influences on the traditions of Catholicism in the United States. A collection of largely biographical segments dedicated to certain influential, thought-provoking, and paradigm-shifting American Catholics from the…
- Author: Lindsay, Betty A. Lausier
Date: 1981
Language: en/fr
Find in a Library: 9759931
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Collection of recipes and folk remedies from the Lausier family of Grand Isle, Maine. Introduced with a brief history of the family and its kitchen habits. Illustrated in black and white photograph. Published in English and French versions. Revised…
- Author: Bessette, Richard P.
Date: 2007
Language: en
Find in a Library: 164600253
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Pictorial account of a family's immigration that begins in Europe and moves through Canada into the United States, ultimately to Chicago, Illinois's Southside in the 20th and 21st centuries.
- Author: Walker, David Bradstreet
Date: 1961
Language: en
Find in a Library: 1081600
An analysis of Brunswick and Lewiston, Maine voting patterns based on demography, involvement in ethnic social organizations, and economic scale. Walker examines poll figures beginning with the post-1860 French Canadian migration period and moving…
- Author: Hornsby, Stephen (editor)
- Author: Reid, John G.
Date: 2005
Language: English
Find in a Library: 57431351
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Collection of essays by various scholars on New England, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island - critical geographies to what has emerged in historical studies in recent decades as the field of North American "borderland studies."…
- Author: Breton, Raymond (editor)
- Author: Savard, Pierre (editor)
Date: 1982
Language: English
Find in a Library: 36283800
A conference publication consisting of a collection of essays on the titled topic. Contains the following written pieces by their respective authors: "The Acadians: a People in Search of a Country" by Jean Daigle, "Emigration and Colonization: Twin…
- Author: Hartig, Rachel Mildred
Date: 2006
Language: English
Find in a Library: 69104286
An exploration of the lives and texts of three francophone biographers, each struggling in her own way through the difficulties of deafness. Includes a segment on Franco American author Corinne Rocheleau-Rouleau. From Gallaudet University Press:…
- Author: Kennedy, Kate
Date: 2005
Language: en
Find in a Library: 58051314
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A collection of biographical sketches of Maine women with unique accomplishments, and of those who have made significant contributions to their communities and to the state at large. One of the many books in the "More than Petticoats" series, the…
- Author: Bystydzienski, Jill M.
Date: 1985
Publication: American Review of Canadian Studies
Volume: 15
Language: en
A comparison of the historical situations and social positions of French Canadian and African American women. An examination of their family and community roles, cultural stereotypes, and social and politicals achievement levels. Situates the origins…
- Author: Hareven, Tamara K.
Date: 1982 (1993)
Language: en
Find in a Library: 7462143
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Study of the complex relationship between family dynamics and demanding mill work. Takes as its focus the industrial city of Manchester, New Hampshire, its vast mill complexes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the worker families that…
- Author: Hareven, Tamara K.
Date: 1978 (1995)
Language: en
Find in a Library: 4003899
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History of the former Amoskeag mills and Manchester, New Hampshire, through the eyes and mouths of their laborers and citizens. Contains worker interviews, as well as a detailed study of mill divisions and processes. From the book jacket: "The book…
- Author: Hero, Alfred Olivier, Jr.
Date: 2002-spr/sum
Publication: Québec Studies
Volume: 33
Language: en
Find in a Library: 60628349
Changing face of the francophone presence in Louisiana - from French colonial rule beginning in the 17h century, to the Acadian migrations of the 18th century, through Spanish and eventual American rule, and meshed into the assimilative forces of…
- Author: Langellier, Regis
- Author: Langellier, Pamela
Date: 2005 (1996)
Book Title: Ethnicity and Family Therapy
Language: en
Publication in psychotherapy on the historical backgrounds and cultural registers of a variety of ethnic subcultures in the United States. One essay on communicating with Franco Americans, acknowledging traditional familial roles, and understanding…
- Author: Cort-Desrochers, John
Date: 2008
Language: English
Find in a Library: 268988215
Memoirs of a Vermont teacher. The story of his French Canadian family living in St. Johnsbury, Vermont in the middle twentieth century. From Ecko House Publishing: "This book tells of a French Canadian family rising out of poverty and achieving the…
- Author: Fisher, John R.
Date: 1994
Language: English
Find in a Library: 35849944
Brief biography of a French Canadian who fought in the American Civil War as a volunteer from Richmond, Vermont. Concludes with a brief ancestry of his family extending into 17th century France, as well as a list of his descendants now dispersed…
- Author: Black, Barbara
Date: 1984 April 20
Publication: The Gazette
Language: English
Find in a Library: 60623870
Article subtitled, "This first novel describes the attempt of a Franco-American to find out who he is." A review of the 1984 novel "The Questing Beast" and a brief biographical sketch of its author, Richard HeÌbert.
- Author: Turner, Loretta M.
Date: 1993
Language: en
Find in a Library: 31033874
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Pictorial History of Biddeford, Maine, with a particular emphasis on Franco American life there. Biddeford, an industrial city, can claim the presence of working mills from as far back as 1800, many years before the first French Canadian migrations…
- Author: Piotrowski, Tadeusz
Date: 1974
Language: English
Find in a Library: 1102740
Brief essay trying to identify - historically, culturally, nationally - the Franco Americans of the largest city in northern New England, New Hampshire's industrial center, and the one-time home to the largest mill complex in the world. Also featured…
- Author: Perreault, Robert B.
Date: 2010
Language: en
Find in a Library: 664354634
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An intimately crafted Franco American cultural history of Manchester, New Hampshire, written by one of its resident historians. From the author of such works as "One Piece in the Great American Mosaic," "La Presse Franco-Américaine et La…