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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Yves Roby |
ISBN: | 2894483910 9782894483916 2894484003 9782894484005 |
OCLC Number: | 57754012 |
Description: | xvi, 543 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Ch. I. Leaving for the "States" (1840-1900) -- Ch. II. In the eye of the beholder (1865-1900) -- Ch. III. elite and a changing reality (1865-1900) -- Ch. IV. emergence of a radical discourse (1865-1900) -- Ch. V. Progress, crisis, and the seeds of dissension (1901-1914) -- Ch. VI. Radicals and moderates : the rupture (1914-1929) -- Ch. VII. "A national renasence" : between the dream and the reality (1929-1939) -- Ch. VIII. "Isolationism ... or the open-door policy" (1939-1956) -- Ch. IX. elder generation stands down (1956-1976) -- Onomastic index -- Toponimic index. |
Other Titles: | Franco-américains de la Nouvelle-Angleterre. |
Responsibility: | Yves Roby ; translated by Mary Ricard. |
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Abstract:
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. Drawing from first-person accounts, the author explores the conversion of these immigrants and their descendants from French-Canadian to Franco-American.
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