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- Author: Pullen, Clarence
Date: 1902
Language: en
Find in a Library: 6640470
Find Online: OL14014732M
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Subtitled, "Where Acadia and Scandinavia's Subtle Touch Turned a Wilderness into a Land of Plenty." Travel writings of a journalist's visit to Aroostook County in northern Maine at the beginning of the 20th century. The writer's impressions of…
- Author: Levin, Abbe (director)
- Author: Mundell, Kathleen (folklorist)
- Author: Spitzer, Nicholas (narrator)
Date: 2006
Language: English
Find in a Library: 76810555
Subtitled, "An Audio Tour of Route 201 in Maine." A production of short interviews and other recordings that capture the people from each major section of Maine's historic route running north to south along the Kennebec River. Designed to accompany…
- Author: Larouche, Alain H.
Date: 1981-10-00
Language: fr
Une étude de la relation entre l'industrie, l'économie, et les formes de l'ethnicité en Louisiane. Utilisant le population et des établissements de la village de Golden Meadow comme étude de cas, ce profil…
- Author: Nichols, Jim
Date: 2002
Language: English
Find in a Library: 51044695
A collection of short stories largely set in Maine with local characters, written by Maine native and author of the 2011 novel, "Hull Creek."
Features the following stories, in order of appearance:
Magic
The Dilly
C'est La Vie (originally…
Features the following stories, in order of appearance:
Magic
The Dilly
C'est La Vie (originally…
- Author: Kleinberg, S. J.
Date: 2005 spring
Publication: Social Science History
Volume: 29
Language: en
Article on the dynamics of class and ethnicity as related to the labor of women and children in the northeastern United States around the turn of the century. Statistical relationship between family and economy in urban, industrialized America during…
- Author: Audette, Susan T.
Date: 1998
Language: en
Find in a Library: 39756384
Find Online: OL379520M
A history of Old Town Canoe Company contextualized. From the place of Old Town at the time of European explorations on the North American continent, to the logging booms of the early nineteenth century, to the prevalence of the bateau, the mass…
- Author: Pohl, William
- Author: Sewall, Abbie (photographs)
Date: 1983
Language: en
Find in a Library: 9574985
A collection of oral history portraits from around the state of Maine. Introduction written by Marshall Dodge, and foreword from Robert Coles. From the text: " 'The Voice of Maine' offers an extraordinary glimpse into the heart and soul of the people…
- Author: Courville, Serge
Date: 2008
Language: en
Find in a Library: 213525701
Find Online: OL22655005M
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From UBC Press: "In this richly documented work, Serge Courville tells the geographical history of Quebec, from the appearance of the first human groups through to the present day. This detailed and erudite book maps the major stages of Quebec’s…
- 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: 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: Mosher, Howard Frank
Date: 1999
Language: English
Find in a Library: 41488621
An intimate look at rural community life in the American-Canadian borderlands, centered around a Franco American priest, his stories, and his 3000+ page written history of the town in which the novel is set. Recent novel from the creator of the…
- Author: Downs, Jacques M.
Date: 1985
Language: en
Find in a Library: 12419914
Find Online: OL2535469M
A photo-history of the cities of the Saco River Valley in southern Maine. A heavily researched and crafted exhibition of landscapes from colonization to contemporary times, 'The Cities on the Saco' weaves a storytelling tapestry of Saco, Biddeford,…
- Author: Heffernan, Nancy Coffey
- Author: Stecker, Anne Page
Date: 1986
Language: en
Find in a Library: 12907801
Find Online: OL3321887M (3rd ed.)
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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…
- Author: Craig, Béatrice
Date: 2009
Language: en
Find in a Library: 181602806
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…
- 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…