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The Franco-Americans of New England : dreams and realities /
"From 1840 to 1930, about 900,000 Quebecers left their homeland and moved to the United States. By the early 1900s, many industrial cities in New England had thriving French-Canadian communities. In those "cultural ghettos," organized around the parish church and French schools, first...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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[Sillery, Québec] :
Septentrion,
©2004.
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| Edición: | English ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Table of Contents
- List of Tables
- Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- CHAPTER I: Leaving for the States (1840�1900)
- Before 1860
- From 1860 to 1900
- The Québec countryside and emigration
- Urban centers and emigration
- The Acadian emigration
- A fascination with New England
- Characteristics of the migratory movement
- The Little Canadas
- CHAPTER II: In the Eye of the Beholder (1865�1900)
- Turncoats or missionaries?
- Foreigners or Americans?
- CHAPTER III: The Elite and a Changing Reality (1865�1900)They did not leave the homeland, they brought it with them
- The Little Canadas: an arena where the forces of change and the status quo clashed head-on
- The elite caught between the dream and the reality
- CHAPTER IV: The Emergence of a Radical Discourse (1865�1900)
- Two opposing views
- The Irish clergy ... appears to feel nostalgia for oppression
- CHAPTER V: Progress, Crisis, and the Seeds of Dissension (1901�1914)
- Progress and jubilation
- Demographic changes and uncertainty
- The fight against the Irish Episcopate: new strategiesDiscourse on change
- CHAPTER VI: Radicals and Moderates: The Rupture (1914�1929)
- The sacred union to defy full-fledged Americanism
- The Sentinellist unrest and the rupture between the moderate faction and the radical militancy
- The struggle against Anglicization and Americanization: a deeply divided elite
- CHAPTER VII: A National Renasence: Between the Dream and the Reality (1929�1939)
- The Great Depression
- Major changes
- A community completely transformed
- The elite and survivance
- ReconciliationCHAPTER VIII: Isolationism ... or the Open-Door Policy (1939�1956)
- The Franco-Americans and the Second World War
- The Franco-American centennial (1949)
- Thomas-Marie Landry, o.p., at the third Congress of the French Language (1952)
- Isolationism ... or the open-door policy?
- CHAPTER XI: The Elder Generation Stands Down (1956�1976)
- Traditional Franco-America collapses
- Conflicts between generations?
- Isolationism or the open-door policy?
- Epilogue
- In pursuit of Father Landry's dream
- Survivance is dead in the Little CanadasThe last handful
- Bibliographic Guidelines
- Onomastic Index
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