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  • Author: Proulx, Annie

Date: 2011

Language: en

Find in a Library: 555641609

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Narrative of the discovery and inhabiting of the author's homestead along Wyoming's North Platte River. Memoirs from the author's youth and family life, relatives, their cultures and their mobility. Her youth across New England. Historical,…

  • Author: Chmielewski, Laura M.

Date: 2012

Language: en

Find in a Library: 726819031

Find Online: OL25115960M

Exploration of Maine's religious culture and various religious identities in the 17th and early 18th centuries. A study of religious eclecticism in the New England/New France borderland that complicates conventional notions of Christian orthodoxy, or…

  • Author: Takai, Yukari

Date: 2008

Language: en

Find in a Library: 774287243

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Book-length study on French Canadian migrants and migration to Lowell, Massachusetts at the beginning of the 20th century. The role of family in cross-border human movement, and the impact of migration and its social, economic, and labor dimensions…

  • Author: Cuccioletta, Donald
  • Author: Desbiens, Albert

Date: 2000 Spring/Summer

Publication: Québec Studies

Volume: 29

Language: en

Find in a Library: 60628349

Article exploring the notion of "américanité" in Québec: not as an extension of a USA process of "Americanization," but as a descriptive continental term that relates to, contextualizes, characterizes, and pluralizes Québécois…

  • Author: Bernier, Léon
  • Author: Bédard, Guy

Date: 2000 Spring/Summer

Publication: Québec Studies

Volume: 29

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 60628349

Une exploration du terme et du thème "américanité" en tant qu'un point focal d'identité et d'identification du Québécois francophone. Les manières dont la géographie, la langue et la perception culturelle de soi comprendre…

  • Author: Lord, Kathleen

Date: 2012

Publication: Visual Communication

Volume: 11

Language: en

Find in a Library: 49517846

Article analyzing how Montréal, Québec and Lowell, Massachusetts photography provides a means for exploring the relationship between patterns of transportation, public space, and social life through the early twentieth century. The history of…

  • Author: Senécal, Joseph-André

Date: 2009 Summer/Fall

Publication: Vermont History

Volume: 77

Language: en

Find in a Library: 1773222

Article on the historical origins of the name of "Vermont" as it describes both the New England state and the mountain range of which it is a part. The relationship of some other geographic place names in this region to the explorers and founders of…

  • Author: McQuillan, D. Aidan

Date: 1979 avril

Publication: Cahiers de géographie du Québec

Volume: 23

Language: English

Find in a Library: 60627975

Article on French Canadian immigrant and worker communities in the states of Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois in the nineteenth century. How farming, lumbering, and mining communities of this era differed from the fur-trading, French…

  • Author: Green, Mary Jean

Date: 2009

Publication: Comparative Literature

Volume: 61

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1564555

Critical essay on the inclusion of Francophone peoples and regions in the broadening scope of American Studies. Brief survey on certain literary works and literary criticism that illustrate how cultural identity gets articulated in terms of the wide…

  • Author: LeBlanc, Robert G.

Date: 1991

Book Title: Le Québec et les francophones de la Nouvelle-Angleterre

Volume: 1

Language: English

Find in a Library: 26264654

Conference presentation outlining the major contributions of geographers to Franco-American studies in the 1980s and early 1990s. Critical comments on efforts in Canadian, American, and francophone cartography; local-level demographic studies;…

  • Author: Pacini, Peggy

Date: 2011 March 28

Publication: E-rea

Volume: 8

Language: English

Find in a Library: Unknown/Inconnu

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Critical reading of Jack Kerouac's most famous novel, "On the Road," through the lens of French mobility in America and Kerouac's Franco American cultural identity. How Kerouac's traveling characters signify and explore the "homelessness" that the…

  • Author: Konrad, Victor
  • Author: Nicol, Heather N.

Date: 2011

Publication: Geopolitics

Volume: 16

Language: en

Find in a Library: 4796886589

Discussion of "border culture" as a product of both the divisions and the transnational cultural and political relationships apparent in societies that share a geopolitical boundary. Exploration of "borderlands theory" as a means for considering the…

  • Author: Warner, W. Lloyd
  • Author: Lunt, Paul S.

Date: 2004

Language: en

Find in a Library: 53846344

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Selected case study of a New England city, presented for use in instruction in sociology, political science, and psychology. Without naming the city, this case study includes descriptions of the city's landscape, industry, population, and cultural…

  • Author: DeCourcy, Sr. Theresa

Date: 1972 (?)

Language: English

Find in a Library: Unknown/Inconnu

Subtitled, "A Unit for Sixth Grade Students in Catholic Schools of the Diocese of Portland." A 9-week elementary school guide for teachers in Maine history, with specific emphasis on cultural content, ethnic groups, and the contributions of the…

  • Author: Larouche, Alain H.

Date: 1981-10-00

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 10099014, 8711246, 726186289

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: Indiana Historical Society

Date: 1954

Language: English

Find in a Library: Inconnu

Publication sur l'histoire de l'exploration et la colonisation française en Amérique du Nord, et les emplacements américaine dans laquelle les constructions et les noms de lieu françaises persistent dans le présent.

  • Author: Labbé, Yvon A. (editor)

Date: 1978 janvier

Publication: Le F.A.R.O.G. Forum

Volume: 5

Language: Bilingual/bilingue

Find in a Library: 6881976, b2728209

January 1978 issue of the bilingual periodical publication of the Franco-American Centre (formerly the Franco-American Office), University of Maine, Orono, Maine. Contains art and articles on Franco American life. This issue also contains a four-page…

  • Author: Gade, Daniel W.

Date: 1977

Publication: Cahiers de géographie du Québec

Volume: 21

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 60627975

Find Online: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60627975

Un profil de l'État du Vermont des années 1970. Un essai qui compare les perceptions et les mythes sur le Vermont avec les données géographiques et historiques qui ont servi à les inspirer et de les soutenir. Réflexions de l'auteur…

  • Author: Garfinkel, Perry

Date: 1980 September

Publication: National Geographic

Volume: 158

Language: English

Find in a Library: 6451257, 2255097

Expository, journalistic piece on the people of the Upper St. John River Valley, cradle of the political border between northeastern Maine and New Brunswick. The predominance of French Acadian culture there and an integrative overview of its elements…

  • Author: Thomas, Dr. Alton P.

Date: 1976

Language: en

Find in a Library: 2968303

Find Online: OL4907329M

Full title also reads: "A Bicentennial Project for the City of Woonsocket." A collection of historical essays on Woonsocket, Rhode Island, earlier featured in an historical column of the city's newspaper, the Woonsocket Call. Nearly two centuries of…

  • Author: Born, Warren C. (editor)

Date: 1976

Language: English

Find in a Library: 2108146

A collection of reports from the working committees of the 1976 Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. An overview of the history and tradition of immigration in the United States, and an introduction to ethnic groups associated…

  • Author: Larson, Denise R.

Date: 2008

Language: English

Find in a Library: 192139891

A remembrance of the French colonists to accompany explorer Samuel de Champlain to North America in the seventeenth century, and some observations on the particular developments of their transplanted culture and society. The first decades of the…

  • Author: Conforti, Joseph A.

Date: 2001

Language: en

Find in a Library: 45909198

Find Online: OL7972726M

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The shape of regional identity in New England, from its Puritan origins, to its Yankee iterations, to its immigrant diversity. How popular conceptions of the New England region were created, established, and communicated, and how these conceptions…

  • Author: Mount, Graeme S.
  • Author: Stevenson, Michael D.

Date: 1993-01 (winter, spring)

Publication: Maine Historical Society Quarterly

Volume: 32

Language: en

Find in a Library: 22663768, 607696548

Article discussing the impact of the 1842 Webster-Ashburton Treaty on the remapping of Roman Catholic diocesan boundaries in the New Brunswick and northern Maine border region. How Maine and Canadian political geography figured into the organization…

  • Author: Smith, David C.

Date: 1971

Language: English

Find in a Library: 658331

Bibliography of texts related to lumbering, woodcutters, and their environments in Maine from the middle 19th century to the 20th. Contains lists of manuscript collections, articles, comprehensive historical texts, town histories, unpublished theses,…

  • Author: Trépanier, Cécyle

Date: 1991 July

Publication: The Geographical Journal

Volume: 157

Language: English

Find in a Library: 481914879

Historical transformation of the term "Cajun" in Louisiana - its meaning, scope, and usage, as well as its blurring of the state's diversity of French lineages. Influence of the term "Cajun" on the cultural awareness of the Louisiana French, and the…

  • Author: Courville, Serge

Date: 2008

Language: en

Find in a Library: 213525701

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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…

  • Author: Guignard, Michael J.

Date: 1982

Language: en

Find in a Library: 11210512

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Edited and updated book version of a dissertation published five years earlier ("Ethnic survival in a New England Mill Town," Syracuse University, 1977), with a foreword by author and Biddeford resident, Norman Beaupré. A Franco American history…

  • 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."…