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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 |
| Sumario: | 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 local spies. Gerhard Bassler reveals what was lost when almost all earlier memories of Germans in Newfoundland and Labrador vanished. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 378 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-366) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780773577091 0773577092 1282867547 9781282867543 9786612867545 661286754X |