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

Date: 1988

Language: English

Find in a Library: 16088935

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: Arsenault, Bona [Bonaventure]

Date: 1978

Language: en

Find in a Library: 6252812

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Translation of the first volume of Arsenault's original historical collection, "Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens." This volume, "Histoire des Acadiens," attempts a comprehensive history of the Acadian people - their arrival in…

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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: Rumilly, Robert

Date: 1958

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 873132

Find Online: OL20427768M

Un histoire complète des franco-américains - les français et canadiens-français en Amérique - depuis le temps de Champlain (17e siècle) jusqu'à la fin de la Deuxième Guerre Mondiale. Cet volume a été publié par…

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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: Cormier, Robert

Date: 1977

Language: English

Find in a Library: 3925983

A back-and-forth between third- and first-person narration, "I Am The Cheese" is Adam's journey to visit his ailing father, as well as our own trip through Adam's returning memories as they are laid out in psychiatric therapy. From Knopf Publishing:…

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  • Author: Bonenfant, Joseph
  • Author: Moorhead, Andrea

Date: 1986

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 17296485

Une collection de lettres echangées entre deux écrivain(e)s et deux pays, Canada et les Etats-Unis, au début des années 1980.

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  • Author: Blanchette, Michel A.

Date: 2005

Language: English

Find in a Library: 67294624

Self-published memoir about life in Québec, and life after Québec. From iUniverse: "Michel learns that his father is dying. This news precipitates a nostalgic journey into the past-a childhood spent on a dairy farm in French Québec. As a…

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  • Author: Beaulieu, Victor-Lévy

Date: 1978

Language: Français (English translation available)

Find in a Library: 5982692, 184816014

The back cover of the text reads: "'A Québécois Dream' is a nightmare vision of what happens to a man who is dispossessed, impotent, afraid and filled with rage. Joseph-David-Barthélémy Dupuis takes grotesque war measures against his…

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  • Author: Bald, Margaret

Date: 2006

Language: English

Find in a Library: 38218731

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: Weisman, Adam

Date: 1995

Thesis Type: Ph. D., English and American Literature and Language

Institution: Harvard University

Language: en

Find in a Library: 34361480

Also featured, in abridged form, in the Massachusetts Review (see 'Journal Articles'). From the author: "This thesis introduces the concept of imaginative colonization in postcolonial literary and cultural studies, which has a particular relevance to…

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  • Author: Provencher Faucher, Doris

Date: 2006

Language: English

Find in a Library: 122407531

Third novel in "Le Québécois" series. From Artenay Press: "Three decades of colonial peace and prosperity follow the Treaty of Utrecht. Bastien's three succeeding generations migrate to settle south and west along the Saint Lawrence…

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  • Author: Poulin, Jacques

Date: 1984

Language: English (traduction du français)

Find in a Library: 48670997

1984 best-selling Québec novel about two new-found friends traveling across the roads of Canada and the United States - from Gaspé to San Francisco - in search of one's brother. Infused with histories of Native Americans, French colonization,…

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  • Author: Plante, David

Date: 1983

Publication: Prize Stories 1983: The O. Henry Awards

Language: English

Find in a Library: 9409280

Short story about an American and his lover vacationing in Italy, entering in a meaningful way into the lives of their Italian neighbors through work. Originally published in the September 21, 1981, edition of The New Yorker. Recognized by the 1983…

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  • Author: Therriault, Mary-Carmel

Date: 1945

Thesis Type: Ph. D., Littérature française

Institution: Université Laval

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 77409396

Un oeuvre qui explore le phénomène de la littérature langue française écrit et lit dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre, jusqu'à 1945. Réédité en 1946 par Fides, les Publications de l'Université…

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  • Author: Spinner, Jeffrey Alan

Date: 1992

Thesis Type: Ph. D., Political Science

Institution: University of Michigan

Language: en

Find in a Library: 30073134

From the author: "Liberals usually argue that cultural identity can flourish in the private sphere but should not matter in public. This argument is blind to the way liberal institutions affect cultural identity, the prejudices that members of some…

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  • Author: Sorrell, Richard Sherman

Date: 1975

Thesis Type: Ph. D., History

Institution: State University of New York at Buffalo

Language: en

Find in a Library: 3129396

Definitive text on the background and maneuverings of the Sentinelle Affair in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. How the relationship between Catholic Church leaders and lay Franco Americans in Woonsocket was tempered by the empassioning pull of 'la…

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  • Author: Silvia, Philip Thomas, Jr.

Date: 1973

Thesis Type: Ph. D., History

Institution: Fordham University

Language: en

Find in a Library: 5661072

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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  • Author: Richard, Mark Paul

Date: 2001

Thesis Type: Ph. D., History

Institution: Duke University

Language: en

Find in a Library: 48260966

Dissertation from the author of "Loyal but French: The Negotiation of Identity by French-Canadian Descendants in the United States." From the author: "Using Lewiston, Maine, as a community study, this dissertation examines how individuals of…

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  • Author: Lees, Cynthia C

Date: 2006

Thesis Type: Ph. D., Romance Languages and Literatures

Institution: University of Florida

Language: en; fr

Find in a Library: 658213798

From Lees: "This dissertation examines nine texts written by Franco-American novelists of New England. Themes of migrancy, exile, and cultural survival (la survivance) ground my study. I explore the negotiations of cultural, social, political,…

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  • Author: Lamarre, Jean

Date: 1996

Thesis Type: Ph. D., Histoire

Institution: Université de Montréal

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 46524973

Ce texte a devenu le livre "Le Canadiens français du Michigan" (2000), ou "The French Canadians of Michigan" (2003). Du résumé: "Cette thèse a pour objet la migration des Canadiens français vers le Michigan de 1840 à 1914. Elle…

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  • Author: Harmond, Richard Peter

Date: 1966

Thesis Type: Ph. D., Political Science

Institution: Columbia University

Language: en

Find in a Library: 36608666

Find Online: OL11687408W

Massachusetts politics during fifteen years within the industrial and early immigration periods of the late 19th century. From Harmond: "As this study seeks to show, Massachusetts confronted a dual set of challenges in the post-Reconstruction era. …

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  • Author: Shea, Louise Gravel

Date: 1999

Thesis Type: M.A., Geography

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 277833186

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De l'auteur: "Le territoire d'étude de ce mémoire est situé dans le comté du Madawaska, au nord-ouest du Nouveau-Brunswick et dans la partie nord du comte d'Aroostook Maine, c'est-à-dire dans la vallée supérieure de la rivière…

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  • Author: Fluet, Gregoire J.

Date: 2002

Thesis Type: Ph. D., History

Institution: Clark University

Language: en

Find in a Library: 56843683

From Fluet: "This dissertation...focuses on the immigrant French Canadians who maintained their cultural identity and embraced American nationality in the Connecticut Yankee town of Putnam in the period of 1855-1895. Few community studies exist for…

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  • Author: Fecteau, Albert

Date: 1952

Thesis Type: M.A., History

Institution: University of Maine at Orono

Language: en

Find in a Library: 6965308

From the text: "While there have been a number of books and articles on the French Canadians in New England, very little has been written about the French Canadians in Maine. This thesis presents a study of a typical Maine French Canadian community,…

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  • Author: Cumbler, John Taylor, Jr.

Date: 1974

Thesis Type: Ph. D.

Institution: University of Michigan

Language: en

Find in a Library: 3420030

From a review of by Donald H. Stewart, SUNY Cortland, on the later text based on this dissertation's research: "Cumbler concentrates on two Massachusetts cities - Lynn, a late-nineteenth century shoe manufacturing center, and Fall River, a leading…

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  • Author: Cox, Harold R.

Date: 1972

Thesis Type: M.A., Political Science

Institution: University of Maine at Orono

Language: en

Find in a Library: 11328160

Study of links between French ethnicity and voting in Maine in the 20th century. Franco American voting patterns, and the recent history of the Franco American voting bloc in Maine state politics.

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  • Author: Chevalier, Sister Florence Marie, S.S.A.

Date: 1972

Thesis Type: Ph. D., Sociology

Institution: Catholic University of America

Language: en

Find in a Library: 11037919

Dissertation on the histories of Franco American national societies and fraternal organizations in New England. Their significance to French Canadian and Franco American communities there from 1860 to 1960. How these organizations were involved in…

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  • Author: Brown, Michael Serizawa

Date: 1992

Thesis Type: M.A., History

Institution: University of Maine at Orono

Language: en

Find in a Library: 27201223

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From the author: "In 1970 a group of Franco-Americans at the University of Maine, Orono, began meeting to discuss the creation of a new Franco-American ethnic identity. By the end of 1972, the succeeded in establishing a formal Franco-American…

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