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Vikings to U-Boats : the German experience in Newfoundland and Labrador /
The first German arrived in Newfoundland with Leif Eirikson's Viking expedition. By 1914 St. John's was home to a vibrant German community while a Moravian enclave thrived in Labrador. Contemporary Newfoundland, however, remembers its German heritage largely in terms of U-Boat captains and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal [Que.] :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©2006
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| Colección: | McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history. Series 2.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "I was born where wine and grapes are no rarity" : first contacts
- "The Esquimaux ... cannot be in better hands" : the Moravian Mission in Labrador
- From Hamburg bread to turbines : expanding contacts in the nineteenth century
- "Venturesome sons of the fatherland" : immigrants, sojourners, and visitors, 1870-1914
- "Few of civilization's blessings" : images, impressions, and perceptions
- "I have with great patience withstood many insults" : the enemy alien experience, 1914-1919
- "I can get another Hiscock anytime, but I cannot get a Weber" : newcomers after the War, 1919-1939
- "Backwoodsmen of the sea" : Germans look at Newfoundland between the World Wars
- "We should first look to British stock" : Germans deemed undesirable?
- "I had been loyal to the country" : internment operations and experiences, 1939-1945
- "Can the leopard change its spots?" The Nazi Fifth-Column experince, 1939-1945
- "The spy among us" : the U-boat syndrome.