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- Author: Carls, J. Norman
Date: 1937-04-00
Publication: Economic Geography
Volume: 13
Language: en
Find in a Library: 1567395
Article describing the state of hosiery mills in Laconia, New Hampshire in the late 1930s: obstacles to effective production, descriptions of economic advantages, suggestions for improvement. Historical background from the origins of the first…
- Author: Béchard, Deni Y.
Date: 2012 (2006, Canada edition)
Language: en
Find in a Library: 758646813
Find Online: OL8053238W
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Novel tracing a century of Québec's Hervé family in the United States and Canada, and the genetic conditions that have turned its offspring "alternately [into] brutes or runts" (4). Jude the emigrant boxer in 1960s Georgia and Louisiana, and Isa,…
- Author: Salmond, John
Date: 2002
Language: en
Find in a Library: 56424876
Find Online: OL8166385M
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An account of 1934's nationwide textile strike in the United States. The trend of unionization that preceded the strike, and the strike's lasting impact on labor and industry in the United States. A specific focus on the impact of this strike in the…
- Author: Freeman, Jesse (interviewer)
Date: 2009 January 23
Language: English
Find in a Library: 181139334
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Georgia Public Broadcasting radio interview of Worcester, Massachusetts native John Dufresne on the occasion of his new novel, "Requiem, Mass." Discussion about the novel's characters and setting, Dufresne's ideas about autobiographical writing and…
- Author: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Date: 2004
Language: English
Find in a Library: 56903271
Maine native Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem about "le Grand Dérangement" - the Acadian Expulsion - and one Acadian woman's rampant search for a love lost. This text also includes an introduction, a brief historical sketch of the Acadians,…
- Author: LeBlanc, Robert G.
Date: 1967
Publication: Cahiers de géographie du Québec
Volume: 11
Language: en
Find in a Library: 60627975
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A concise account of the Acadian migrations between 1750 and 1800, including intercontinental migration routes, community prevalance, and the political context that motivated such a tumultuous half-century in and out of Atlantic Canada.