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Franco-Americans of New England

Author : Yves Roby
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 2894483910
Total Pages : 563 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (944 download)

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Book Synopsis Franco-Americans of New England by : Yves Roby

Download or read book Franco-Americans of New England written by Yves Roby and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2004 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1840 and 1930, approximately 900,000 people left Quebec for the United States and settled in French-Canadian colonies in New England's industrial cities. Yves Roby draws from first-person accounts to explore the conversion of these immigrants and their descendants from French-Canadian to Franco-American. The first generation of immigrants saw themselves as French Canadians who had relocated to the United States. They were not involved with American society and instead sought to recreate their lost homeland. The Franco-Americans of New England reveals that their children, however, did not see a need to create a distinct society. Although they maintained aspects of their language, religion, and customs, they felt no loyalty to Canada and identified themselves as Franco-American. Roby's analysis raises insightful questions about not only Franco-Americans but also the integration of ethno-cultural groups into Canadian society and the future of North American Francophonies.

Franco-Americans of Maine

Author : Dyke Hendrickson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738572802
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (728 download)

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Book Synopsis Franco-Americans of Maine by : Dyke Hendrickson

Download or read book Franco-Americans of Maine written by Dyke Hendrickson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly one-third of Maine residents have French blood and are known as Franco-Americans. Many trace their heritage to French Canadian families who came south from Quebec in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to work in the mills of growing communities such as Auburn, Augusta, Biddeford, Brunswick, Lewiston, Saco, Sanford, Westbrook, Winslow, and Waterville. Other Franco-Americans, known as Acadians, have rural roots in the St. John Valley in northernmost Maine. Those of French heritage have added a unique and vibrant accent to every community in which they have lived, and they are known as a cohesive ethnic group with a strong belief in family, church, work, education, the arts, their language, and their community. Today they hold posts in every facet of Maine life, from hourly worker to the U.S. Congress. These hardworking people have a notable history and have been a major force in Maine's development.

The French-Canadian Heritage in New England

Author : Gerard J. Brault
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9780874513592
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (135 download)

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Book Synopsis The French-Canadian Heritage in New England by : Gerard J. Brault

Download or read book The French-Canadian Heritage in New England written by Gerard J. Brault and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1986 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this book, Gerard J. Brault offers an introduction to Franco- American culture, covering the group's history, ideology, language, and literature; architecture, art, folklore, and music; demography, education, politics, religion, and sociology. " Back cover of book.

Franco-America in the Making

Author : Jonathan K. Gosnell
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803285272
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis Franco-America in the Making by : Jonathan K. Gosnell

Download or read book Franco-America in the Making written by Jonathan K. Gosnell and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-07-01 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A study of the manifestation and persistence of hybrid Franco-American literary, musical, culinary, and media cultures in North America, particularly New England and southern Louisiana"--

A Distinct Alien Race

Author : David Vermette
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781771861694
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book A Distinct Alien Race written by David Vermette and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Franco-American Overview

Author : Madeleine Giguere
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book A Franco-American Overview written by Madeleine Giguere and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended to help readers develop an appreciation of the contributions of Franco-Americans to the cultural heritage of the United States, this book, the third of six volumes, presents 17 readings representing many perspectives--from the historical to the sociological--illustrating the thinking and feelings of those in the forefront of Franco-American studies. This volume focuses on Franco-Americans in New England. The following readings are presented: "The French-Canadians in New England" (William MacDonald); "French Catholics in the United States" (J. K. L. LaFlamme, David E. Lavigne, and J. Arthur Favreau); "French and French-Canadians in the United States" (Mason Wade); "The Acadian Migrations" (Robert LeBlanc); "The Loyalists and the Acadians" (Mason Wade); "The Franco-Americans in Maine: A Geographical Perspective" (James P. Allen); "Quebec to 'Little Canada': The Coming of the French-Canadians to New England in the Nineteenth Century" (Iris Saunders Podea); "The French Colony at Brunswick, Maine: A Historical Sketch" (William N. Locke); "The Franco-Americans of New England" (George F. Theriault); "The Laborers of Manchester, New Hampshire 1912-1922: The Role of Family and Ethnicity in Adjustment to Industrial Life" (Tamara K. Hareven); "The Franco-American Working-Class Family" (Laurence French); "Traditional French-Canadian Family Life Patterns and Their Implications for Social Services in Vermont" (Peter Woolfson); "The Presidential Politics of Franco-Americans" (David B. Walker); "A Profile of Franco-American Political Attitudes in New England" (Norman Sepenuk); "The French Parish and 'Survivance' in 19th Century New England" (Mason Wade); "The Shadows of the Trees: Religion and Language" (Jacques Ducharme); and "French National Societies in New England" (Edward Billings Ham). (LH)

Quiet Presence

Author : Dyke Hendrickson
Publisher : Portland, Me. : G. Gannett Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Quiet Presence written by Dyke Hendrickson and published by Portland, Me. : G. Gannett Publishing Company. This book was released on 1980 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Franco-Americans

Author : Maurice Violette
Publisher : New York : Vantage Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Franco-Americans by : Maurice Violette

Download or read book The Franco-Americans written by Maurice Violette and published by New York : Vantage Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the French-Canadians in Augusta, Maine.

Napoleon's Troublesome Americans

Author : Peter P. Hill
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1612343015
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)

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Book Synopsis Napoleon's Troublesome Americans by : Peter P. Hill

Download or read book Napoleon's Troublesome Americans written by Peter P. Hill and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortly before the United States declared war on Great Britain in June 1812, Congress came within two votes of declaring war on Napoleon Bonaparte's French empire. For six years, France and Britain had both seized American shipping. While common wisdom says that America was virtually an innocent in this matter, caught in the middle of the epic wars between France and Britain, Peter Hill has uncovered a far more complex and interesting history. French privateers and Napoleon's navy were seizing American merchant ships in a concerted attempt to disrupt Britain's commerce. American ships were the principal carriers of British goods to the continent, and Napoleon believed his best, and perhaps only, hope to defeat Britain was to cut off that market. While the French emperor sought an accommodation with America, the administrations of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison continually frustrated him. American diplomatic fumbling sent mixed messages, and American neutrality policies, Hill finds, were more punishing to France than to Britain. Always interested in lucrative ventures, American merchant ships also became the main suppliers of food to British forces fighting Napoleon in Spain and Portugal. By 1812, the United States was on a collision course with both Britain and France over clashes on the high seas, and war with two major powers at once might have proven disastrous for the young United States. Hill's engaging narrative details the fascinating history of America's troubled relationship with Napoleon and how this crisis with France was finally averted.

Franco-America in the Making

Author : Jonathan K. Gosnell
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496207130
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Franco-America in the Making written by Jonathan K. Gosnell and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-07-01 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every June the city of Lowell, Massachusetts, celebrates Franco-American Day, raising the Franco-American flag and hosting events designed to commemorate French culture in the Americas. Though there are twenty million French speakers and people of French or francophone descent in North America, making them the fifth-largest ethnic group in the United States, their cultural legacy has remained nearly invisible. Events like Franco-American Day, however, attest to French ethnic permanence on the American topography. In Franco-America in the Making, Jonathan K. Gosnell examines the manifestation and persistence of hybrid Franco-American literary, musical, culinary, and media cultures in North America, especially New England and southern Louisiana. To shed light on the French cultural legacy in North America long after the formal end of the French empire in the mid-eighteenth century, Gosnell seeks out hidden French or "Franco" identities and sites of memory in the United States and Canada that quietly proclaim an intercontinental French presence, examining institutions of higher learning, literature, folklore, newspapers, women's organizations, and churches. This study situates Franco-American cultures within the new and evolving field of postcolonial Francophone studies by exploring the story of the peoples and ideas contributing to the evolution and articulation of a Franco-American cultural identity in the New World. Gosnell asks what it means to be French, not simply in America but of America.

The Franco-Americans of Lewiston-Auburn

Author : Mary Rice-Defosse
Publisher : History Press Library Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781540210098
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis The Franco-Americans of Lewiston-Auburn by : Mary Rice-Defosse

Download or read book The Franco-Americans of Lewiston-Auburn written by Mary Rice-Defosse and published by History Press Library Editions. This book was released on 2015-01-26 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franco-Americans brought their proud cultural legacy to Lewiston-Auburn beginning in the mid-nineteenth century. As their population grew, religious leaders became community leaders, building an independent parish and a support system, as well as providing child care. The Sisters of Charity cared for the sick and orphaned and ran the first bilingual school in Maine. Franco-Americans grappled with their own questions of patriotism, identity and culture, assimilating as Americans while preserving both their French and French Canadian backgrounds. Authors Mary Rice-DeFosse and James Myall explore the challenges, accomplishments and enduring bonds of the Franco-Americans in Lewiston-Auburn.

The Franco-Americans of Lewiston-Auburn

Author : Mary Rice-Defosse
Publisher : American Heritage
ISBN 13 : 9781626194601
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (946 download)

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Download or read book The Franco-Americans of Lewiston-Auburn written by Mary Rice-Defosse and published by American Heritage. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franco-Americans brought their proud cultural legacy to Lewiston-Auburn beginning in the mid-nineteenth century. As their population grew, religious leaders became community leaders, building an independent parish and a support system, as well as providing child care. The Sisters of Charity cared for the sick and orphaned and ran the first bilingual school in Maine. Franco-Americans grappled with their own questions of patriotism, identity and culture, assimilating as Americans while preserving both their French and French Canadian backgrounds. Authors Mary Rice-DeFosse and James Myall explore the challenges, accomplishments and enduring bonds of the Franco-Americans in Lewiston-Auburn.

The First Franco-Americans

Author : Charles Stewart Doty
Publisher : Orono, Me. : University of Maine at Orono Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis The First Franco-Americans by : Charles Stewart Doty

Download or read book The First Franco-Americans written by Charles Stewart Doty and published by Orono, Me. : University of Maine at Orono Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

French Immigrants and Pioneers in the Making of America

Author : Marie-Pierre Le Hir
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476644853
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Book Synopsis French Immigrants and Pioneers in the Making of America by : Marie-Pierre Le Hir

Download or read book French Immigrants and Pioneers in the Making of America written by Marie-Pierre Le Hir and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans have long had a rich if complicated relationship with France. They adore all things French, especially food and fashion. They visit the country and learn the language. Historically, Americans have also been quick to blame France at certain times of international crisis, and find fault with their handling of domestic issues. Despite ups and downs, the friendship between the countries remains very strong. The author explains the strength of Franco-American relations lies in the diplomatic ties that extend back to the founding of the United States, but more importantly, in the French DNA that is imprinted on American culture. The French were the first Europeans to settle the regions now known as Florida, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Missouri, Kansas and Arkansas--and Frenchman remained in Louisiana after the land was purchased by the United States. This book explores the effects that France has had on American culture, and why modern Americans of French descent are so fascinated by their ancestry.

The Franco-Americans of Lowell, Massachusetts

Author : Richard Santerre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book The Franco-Americans of Lowell, Massachusetts written by Richard Santerre and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History of the Franco-Americans

Author : Robert Rumilly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (858 download)

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Download or read book History of the Franco-Americans written by Robert Rumilly and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Franco-American Identity, Community, and La Guiannée

Author : Anna Servaes
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1626745552
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (267 download)

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Book Synopsis Franco-American Identity, Community, and La Guiannée by : Anna Servaes

Download or read book Franco-American Identity, Community, and La Guiannée written by Anna Servaes and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French traditions in America do not live solely in Louisiana. Franco-American Identity, Community, and La Guiannée travels to Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, and Prairie du Rocher, Illinois, to mark the Franco-American traditions still practiced in both these Midwestern towns. This Franco-American cultural identity has continued for over 250 years, surviving language loss, extreme sociopolitical pressures, and the American Midwest's demands for conformity. Ethnic identity presents itself in many forms, including festivals and traditional celebrations, which take on an even more profound and visible role when language loss occurs. On New Year's Eve, the guionneurs, revelers who participate in the celebration, disguise themselves in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century costume and travel throughout their town, singing and wishing New Year's greetings to other members of the community. This celebration, like such others as Cajun Mardi Gras in Louisiana, Mumming in Ireland and Newfoundland, as well as the Carnaval de Binche, belongs to a category of begging quest festivals that have endured since the Medieval Age. These festivals may have also adapted or evolved from pre-Christian pagan rituals. Anna Servaes produces a historical context for both the development of French American culture as well as La Guiannée in order to understand contemporary identity. She analyzes the celebration, which affirms ethnic community, drawing upon theories by influential anthropologist Victor Turner. In addition, Servaes discusses cultural continuity and its relationship to language, revealing contemporary expressions of Franco-American identity.