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The Politics of Default : Financial Restructure and Reform in Depression Era Fall River, Massachusetts
Brief essay on the Depression-era local economics of the highly industrialized and densely populated Massachusetts town of Fall River. Governmental maneuverings and business restructuring in response to the great 1930s economic downturn. -
Les Franco-Américains dans la guerre : patriotisme et survivance
Article journal sur la participation militaire des canadiens-français aux conflits américains: les guerres d'Indépendence et de Sécession, les Guerres mondiales, etc. Quelques descriptions des hommes canadien-français et franco-américains bien-connus pour leur service militaire ou leurs expressions d'une patriotisme américain dans le 20e siiècle. Explorations de la phénomiène de la guerre comme entrée franco-américaine dans la discussion de l'identité culturelle et nationale; des attitudes franco-américains envers le Canada, le Québec, et le France; des négotiations de "l'élite franco-américain" pour un héritage français aux États-Unis par des périodes d'un patriotisme intensifié américain. La guerre américaine en tant que site de la dualité culturelle franco-américain.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Boston MA, Canada, Clubs and Societies, Cooperville NY, Fall River MA, Lake Champlain VT, Lowell MA, Malone NY, Manchester NH, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Nonfiction -- History -- General, Nonfiction -- Immigration, Oswego NY, Québec, Rouse's Point VT, War, Whitehall NY, Woonsocket RI -
"Speak White" : Language Policy, Immigration, Discourse, and Tactical Authenticity in a French Enclave in New England
Article analyzing the Sentinelle Affair in 1920s Rhode Island as a case study in <i>la survivance</i>, for the role of language politics in spectres of assimilation and white ethnicity in the United States, and as a lens to the political economies that have historically upheld English Only language policy arguments. An expansive reading of Sentinellist responses to American Catholic Church English language policies for parochial schools. How events like the Sentinelle Affair imply what have been historical, multifaceted linguistic realities in education throughout the United States, and in particular in New England French-heritage enclaves of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Argument in favor of Franco American "settlement" in New England as best understood in the discourse of diaspora instead of the "resistance-assimilation" dichotomy that often accompanies discussions of local culture in American immigration. -
Soldiers from the Farther North : A Research Note on Canadians in the Union Army in the American Civil War
Article describing the participation of French and English Canadians in the United States Civil War. Justifications for participation - economic, political, personal, and otherwise - from primary and secondary source literature. Domestic Canadian and international implications for Canadian activity in US war. Complications of citizenship and participant moral attitudes toward nationalism, slavery, and other issues. Questions directed toward the complexities surrounding wartime immigration, travel, and/or displacement, and suggestions for further research in family and other archival collections. -
Commemorating a Transnational Hero : The 1909 Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Discovery of Lake Champlain
Article describing and comparing American and Canadian commemorations of the 17th century French explorer, Samuel de Champlain, around Lake Champlain in 1908 and 1909. Champlain as a celebrated "transnational" figure, and the imagery associated with his accomplishments from either side of the USA/Canada border. Particular elements of the celebrations and their suggestions for political, social, and memorial climates of the time. Emphasis on understanding a United States claim to Champlain as national historic figure, and the tercentenary celebration as an American and Canadian reconciliation. Local justification for celebration in New York and VermontTags Burlington VT, Canada, Crown Point NY, England, Exploration and Colonization, Fort Ticonderoga NY, France, Iroquois, Isle LaMotte VT, Lake Champlain VT, New York, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Geography, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Nonfiction -- History -- French in North America, Nonfiction -- Travel and Tourism, Plattsburgh NY, Québec, Québec City QC, Saranac River Valley, Swanton VT, United States, Vergennes VT, Vermont, War -
L'identité de l'immigrant québécois en Nouvelle-Angleterre : le rapport Wright de 1882
Un portrait historique de la réponse publique au rapport infa?me écrit par Carrol Wright et du Bureau of Labor Statistics du Massachusetts, 1881, dans le contexte de l'immigration canadienne-française classe ouvriière, de la communauté, et de l'identité. Des renseignements biographiques sur Carroll Wright. Activité journalistique dans les communautés franco américaines, en particulier autour de l'œuvre de Ferdinand Gagnon et Hugo A. Dubuque, à l'époque. Réactions au rapport 1881 comme éléments significatifs au notre compréhension de l'identité des immigrants en Nouvelle-Angleterre au 19ième siiècle. Référence à l'œuvre historique de Frances Early et un rapport fédéral subséquent sur le travail et le capital qui traite les travailleurs immigrants canadiens-français.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Baltic CT, Cohoes NY, Connecticut, Dunbarton NH, Fall River MA, Grosvenordale CT, Holyoke MA, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Manville RI, Massachusetts, Merrimack River Valley, Mills and Mill Work, Nashua NH, New England, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- Immigration, Plattsburgh NY, Putnam CT, Québec, Rhode Island, Troy NY, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
Disobedient Ancestors
Personal and historical essay weaving a son's reflections on his Québec-born, rebellious, itinerant father through the changing shape of Catholicism in New France, Lower Canada, and Québec into the 21st century. The persistent grip of a longtime North American family's roots. His father's formative youth and later hatred of clergy, their tenuous relationship, the power of cultural narrative, and the shapes that one's departing quests from them can take. -
Migrants and Millworkers : The French Canadian Population of Burlington and Colchester, 1860-1870
Article describing the growth of the French Canadian population in Vermont around the time of the American Civil War, and the differences of Canadian immigrant labor, property ownership, and political activity in select Vermont cities, as well as between those of other New England textile centers of the same time period. Steady growth of unskilled laborers and relative decline of economic conditions among Vermont's growing French Canadian population between 1850 and 1870. Separate social, economic, and political developments of Burlington, Winooski Falls, and greater Colchester that can be traced to Burlington's incorporation in the 1860s. Research on variances in property ownership among French Canadian immigrants in these locations, as well as their rates of naturalization, English fluency, and relevant voting laws. Includes tables with figures on occupational status, childbirths, and youth labor. Subtitled, "The high level of political activity of Colchester's French Canadians contrasted sharply to that of Burlington émigrés." -
La situation religieuse aux États-Unis : illusions et réalités
Une histoire et une critique de l'église Catholique romain aux États-Unis, écrit par un scolaire français. -
Language and Nationalism : Two Integrative Essays
From ERIC: "The extent to which the language planning that has been pursued in many localities and in many periods has been guided by nationalism, that is, by '...the social movements, attitudes, and ideologies which characterize the behavior of nationalities engaged in the struggle to achieve, maintain or enhance their position in the world' (Wirth 1936) is examined in this text. The study familiarizes the reader with the formations and the transformations of nationalism itself, and also examines how and why language commonly comes to be one of the ingredients in nationalist goals and programs..." -
The French Fact : Linguistic Challenge, Demographic Reality, Political Distortion
Essay on the realities of bilingualism in Canada, specifically in Québec. Projections for the future of the French language there with respect to human movement, population, and linguistic assimilation to English. Acknowledges the political strength and vocalization of Québec City has impacted ("distorted") actual popular arguments in defense of the French language. -
Cultural Sovereignty, Identity, and North American Integration : On the Relevance of the U.S.-Canada-Quebec Border
Article exploring cultural policies implemented by Canada and Québec governments to both protect and promote cultural industries and indigenous cultural forms. The function of these policies in shaping national identities. The impact of these policies on Canada-U.S. relations. Canadian policy as response to American cultural industries. How international trade through the lens of FTA, NAFTA, and the WTO relate to Canadian cultural industry and identity politics. -
The Oldest and Most Resistant Section of the Border
Article describing the historical and cultural conditions of the North American border between United States and Canada, particularly its shapes between the United States and the province of Québec. The author's argument that the Canada-US border persists precisely because of the distinctiveness of Québec culture and politics. Québec's relationship with the United States in terms of 18th and 19th century political disputes; migration; industrialization; trade; Québec's movement toward sovereignty; cultural affairs; and party politics dynamics in the 20th century. How popular attitudes toward the United States compare between Québecers and other Canadians; how international borders compare to interprovincial borders.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Business and Economics, Canada, Emigration and Immigration, Film and Television, Government and Politics, Great Britain, Language and Linguistics, New England, New York, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, North America, Ontario, Québec, United States, Vermont -
The Presidential Politics of the Franco Americans
Interpretation of Franco American presidential voting behavior in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island previous to 1962. Takes into account wavering levels of ethnic solidarity, changes in economic class position, religious affiliation, and other historical contexts. Ultimately predicts the demise of "any such political phenomenon as the 'French vote.'"Tags Berlin NH, Biddeford ME, Brunswick ME, Central Falls RI, Chicopee MA, Claremont NH, Demography, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Fitchburg MA, Franklin NH, Gardner MA, Government and Politics, Holyoke MA, Laconia NH, Leominster MA, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Madawaska ME, Manchester NH, Mexico ME, Nashua NH, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, North Adams MA, Pawtucket RI, Rochester NH, Rumford ME, Sanford ME, Somersworth NH, Southbridge MA, Van Buren ME, Waterville ME, Winslow ME, Woonsocket RI -
This Splendid Game : Maine Campaigns and Elections, 1940-2002
An insider's analysis of Maine politics from World War II to the beginning of the 21st century. Close reading and critical examination of one major election in each of the decades between 1940 and 2000: their historical contexts, their candidates or issues, and the campaigns that influenced their outcomes. Includes analyses of elections involving such characters as Margaret Chase Smith, Ed Muskie, Ken Curtis, Elmer Violette, Bill Cohen, Angus King, and Susan Collins. The public approaches that led to their success or failure; the impact of these campaigns and elections on Maine politics more broadly. The shape of Maine political parties by the end of the 20th century. Election analysis after 1970 includes the author's own experiences in Maine politics. -
Margaret Chase Smith : The Persistence of a Political Archetype
Article describing the political method and image of former Maine Republican congresswoman, Margaret Chase Smith. The paradigmatic elements of her political tenure and their subsequent impact on the shapes of later Maine political campaigns and leadership styles. Particular emphasis on the successes of Maine moderates William Cohen, Olympia Snowe, and Susan Collins. The major elements of a "Margaret Chase Smith archetype" : independent leadership style and stance, support for national defense, and an identification with hard work and the working class. The ways in which Smith's successful followers in government imitated these elements, or how notable political defeats relate to a candidate's departures from her moderate archetype. Discussion of Smith's little acknowledged French Canadian roots.Tags Androscoggin County ME, Auburn ME, Augusta ME, Brunswick ME, Cape Elizabeth ME, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Gender and Sexuality, Government and Politics, Hancock County ME, Kittery ME, Lewiston ME, Lincoln County ME, Lisbon Falls ME, Lisbon ME, Maine, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Penobscot County ME, Saco ME, Sanford ME, Skowhegan ME, Waldo County ME, War, Washington DC, Waterville ME, Westbrook ME -
Constant Turmoil : The Politics of Industrial Life in Nineteenth-Century New England
Book-length social history exploring the development of industry, industrial life, and the power of the politics surrounding them in southeastern New England - especially Fall River, Massachusetts - in the nineteenth century. Discussions of gender in the contexts of textile mill work and labor unionism; immigrant workforces, class consciousness, and inter-worker strife. Includes a critical assessment of primary sources consulted, as well as an appendix with demographic and economic data tables referred to in the text.Tags Business and Economics, Connecticut, Coventry RI, English Americans, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Gender and Sexuality, Government and Politics, Irish Americans, Labor History, Lowell MA, Massachusetts, Meriden CT, Mills and Mill Work, New Bedford MA, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Norwalk CT, Providence RI, Quequechan River Valley, Rhode Island, Social History -
Historic Lewiston : Its Government
The third book in a series on the history of Lewiston, Maine, Historic Lewiston, from the Lewiston Historical Commission. Historic Lewiston: Its Government is a 3-part, 53-page overview of Lewiston's town and city government from incorporation, to establishment as city, to 1980. Outlines past and present structures of Lewiston's municipal government. Describes the construction of the city building. Part 3, the book's longest section, provides brief biographical profiles of each of Lewiston's mayors from 1863 to 1980. Illustrated with photographs of buildings and persons. Contents: Chapter 1 Town Government Early City Government The "New" Charter Attempts to Revise the Charter The Present System of Government Chapter 2 Construction of City Building Chapter 3 Mayors of Lewiston -
The Persistance of White Ethnicity in New England Politics
Article presenting data on voting patterns in selected New England towns that indicate, in a general sense, connections between ethnic origin and voting behaviors in the early 21st century. Interpretations of statistical models that indicate the continuing relevance of white ethnic group identification to electoral politics and community formation in New England. Comparison of historical white ethnic groups in the United States to new immigrant populations. Sociological research on assimilation in the United States as related to economic class and political behavior. From the authors: "By examining the persistent effect of white ethnicity on political behavior, we seek to broaden our understanding of ethnic political development and voting. We begin our inspection by discussing the past role and prominence of white ethnicity. We then juxtapose these historic assessments of ethnic persistence and decline with the patterns observable by our empirical analysis of the effect of white ethnicity on presidential politics in over 1500 towns in six New England states."Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Connecticut, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Government and Politics, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Maine, Massachusetts, New England, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Polish Americans, Rhode Island, Vermont -
Yankee City : The Social Life of a Modern Community
Selected case study of a New England city, presented for use in instruction in sociology, political science, and psychology. Without naming the city, this case study includes descriptions of the city's landscape, industry, population, and cultural codes, and some information about vocabulary particular to its people and place. Includes content from interviews with residents, and frequent mention of the dynamics of socioeconomic class within the city. Featured in a collection of popular case studies, with each piece introduced with some information about its significance to scholarship.Tags Armenian Americans, Business and Economics, Community: Customs and Social Life, Demography, Education, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Geography, Greek Americans, Italian Americans, Jewish Americans, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Nonfiction -- Psychology, Nonfiction -- Social Sciences, Nonfiction -- Sociology, Polish Americans, Russian Americans, Social History -
Lettres aè mon ami, sur la patrie, la langue et la question Franco-Américaine
Collection de lettres ouvertes écrites "à mon ami" par un ancien curé pour les Franco-Américains de la Nouvelle-Angleterre en 1930. ècrits philosophiques et théologiques sur le thième de "la question nationale" ou "la question franco-américaine," de déterminer si et comment les Franco-Américains peuvent rester français et américains aux ètats-Unis, ou si leur langue, leur religion et leur culture seraient mieux servis par leur retour au Canada. Cette question est explorée à travers le cadre des chapitres suivants, chacun étant sa propre lettre ouverte: Préface Dédicace Introduction Patriotisme Drapeau Histoire Pays Nation Gouvernment Patrie Langue Langue maternelle Traditions Nationalité L'attitude de l'auteur est peut-être capturé dans la citation suivante de sa préface: "Ils prétendent que les Franco-Américains ne peuvent conserver leur religion qu'en restant Canadiens, et ils posent en principe que, pour eux, s'américaniser, c'est se protestantiser; que perdre leur langue, c'est perdre leur religion....Que les Franco-Américains, qui ne savent l'anglais, demandent des pretres qui parlent leur langue, c'est tout naturel; aussi personne ne pense de les en blâmer, parce que c'est une nécessité que les circonstances leur imposent. Mais c'est autre chose de poser en principe absolu que les Franco-Americains, du fait qu'ils sont d'origine française, doivent être desservis en français....Il est donc souverainement important de prendre les choses telles qu'elles sont, car là seulement est la vérité....Ce que nous cherchons, vous et moi, dans cette discussion de la question franco-américaine, c'est la vérité, sachant que la vérité vraie peut seule nous rendre libres de l'erreur..."(7-9). -
The Alliance Française, Empire and America
An essay describing France's Alliance Francaise, an internationally established cultural institution dedicated to promoting the French language and fostering dialogue with, about, and around French culture throughout the world. A history of the Alliance in the United States, with particular emphasis on its early 20th-century iterations, and on both the "colonial" and "republican" qualities its mission once embodied (229, 233). The Alliance's engagement with different Franco American communities, especially those in New England. From the author: "By giving voice to different constituencies within the French diasporic family, and by creating spaces for cultural exchange, the Alliance has helped to define the contours of New World Francophone identities" (abstract). Includes the segments, "French republicanism at work," "The Alliance Francaise and Franco-America," and "The Alliance Francaise and la francophonie." From the author: "The Alliance Française is in many respects an intermediary between French America's past and present" (240).Tags Acadians, Acculturation and Assimilation, Africa, Biddeford ME, Boston MA, Connecticut, Creoles, Demography, Detroit MI, Education, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Exploration and Colonization, Fall River MA, France, Great Lakes Region, Hanover NH, Hartford CT, Lafayette IN, Lafayette LA, Lake Champlain VT, Language and Linguistics, Lawrence MA, Lewiston ME, Louisiana, Lowell MA, Lynn MA, Maine, Manchester NH, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Orleans LA, New York NY, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Nonfiction -- History -- Clubs and Societies, Northampton MA, Pawtucket RI, Portland ME, Providence RI, Québec, Religion, Rhode Island, Salem MA, St. Lawrence River Valley, US Midwest, Vermont, War, Waterville ME, Wellesley MA, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
Paul Claudel : Ambassador of French Culture
Essay describing a three-day visit of the French ambassador to the United States, Paul Claudel, to Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1929. Claudel as a unique diplomat being better known for his specialties in literature. Captures the thrust of Claudel's remarks at a number of the city's colleges (College of the Holy Cross, Assumption College, Clark University, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute). The ambassador's trips to other Worcester schools and social service institutions. Notes his comments on the topics of culture, engineering, and international affairs and diplomacy following World War I. His efforts at "representing France to the American people, especially those of French descent" in a Massachusetts industrial city. -
Mr. Zero of Canada
Short essay on social activist and champion for the rights of the poor in New York City, Urbain Ledoux, also known as "Mr. Zero." An introduction to the Canadian family from which Ledoux came, a brief biographical portrait of him and his early success in government, and a characterization of his tactical, arguably radical methods as a later advocate for social reform, individual reformation, and basic rights for those in need - particularly the unemployed and homeless men in downtown Manhattan, New York City, in the 1920s and 1930s. -
A Profile of Franco-American Political Attitudes in New England
A scholarly paper exploring some of the potential reasons for the absence of Franco Americans from political life in New England, and, in the author's estimation, the apparent reluctance of Franco Americans to engage in the public life and political leadership of their respective cities and states. The "attitudes" of New England Franco Americans toward politics in general. Some discussion of "the French-Canadian Ethos" and its historical foundations in Quebec, the place of assimilation in Franco American life, and the cultural context of twentieth-century Franco American political activity. Unpublished paper written for John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Also featured in A Franco-American Overview : New England, Part 1 of 2.Tags Berlin NH, Biddeford ME, Brunswick ME, Canada, Central Falls RI, Chicopee MA, Claremont NH, Connecticut, Demography, Fall River MA, Fitchburg MA, France, Franklin NH, Gardner MA, Government and Politics, Holyoke MA, Labor History, Laconia NH, Lawrence MA, Leominster MA, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Madawaska ME, Maine, Manchester NH, Massachusetts, Nashua NH, New England, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, North Adams MA, Pawtucket RI, Putnam CT, Rhode Island, Rochester NH, Rumford ME, Salem MA, Sanford ME, Somersworth NH, Southbridge MA, Van Buren ME, Vermont, Waterville ME, Winooski VT, Winslow ME, Woonsocket RI -
The Franco-Americans : The Relationship Between Ethnic Identification and Political Behavior
An undergraduate honors essay written for the Department of Government at Bowdoin College. Observations into the "low assimilation rate among Franco-Americans" as determined by French Canadian migration patterns, and partly evidenced in what the author argues to be the consistency of a Franco American voting bloc. From the author of, "La Foi, La Langue, La Culture: The Franco-Americans of Biddeford, Maine."Tags Biddeford ME, Canada, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Government and Politics, Labor History, Lewiston ME, Maine, Massachusetts, Mills and Mill Work, New England, New Hampshire, New York, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Québec, Religion, Rhode Island, Social History, St. Lawrence River Valley, Travel and Movement, Vermont, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
La politique dans le Rhode Island
Sur Aram J. Pothier, candidat républicain au poste de gouverneur du Rhode Island, comme il a été décrit par New England Magazine. Un dirigeant local - culturellement, politiquement, économiquement. Aussi quelques mots sur l'homme comme écrit dans La Revue des Deux-Frances. Comment bien qu'il est «américain» en donnant aux discours à la Providence, Boston et Biddeford, Maine. Un argument en faveur de son élection, en dépit de sa naissance canadienne, et aussi des mots à l'appui de l'égalité politique générale pour les immigrants aux États-Unis. -
Revue des faits et des oeuvres : Le Gouverneur Pothier
1908 annonce de l'élection de M. Pothier au bureau du gouverneur de l'état de Rhode Island. Fournit quelques citations pertinentes d'un journal de Montréal, La Patrie. -
Franco-Americans in the Civil War Era, 1861-1865
French Canadians and Franco Americans in the context of the American Civil War. Includes enlistment figures in relation to immigration, as well as population figures around 1860. Considers the short history surrounding the complicated reality of new immigrants fighting in a war for their new country. From the preface: "This booklet was written in an effort to better acquaint Franco-Americans with their outstanding contribution to American life. Indeed, it is partly up to Canadian historians to reveal this heritage to French Canada's often neglected and overlooked diaspora. For too long, Franco-Americans have remained the 'forgotten Americans.' This study seeks to help remedy this unfortunate oversight. 'Franco-Americans in the Civil War Era' is the first booklet in a bilingual series called 'Études sur l'histoire des relations canado-américaines/Studies in the History of Canadian-American Relations' that explores various aspects of the historical relationship between Canada and the United States. The series' goal is to provide the reader with a more holistic understanding of Canadian and American history." -
Quebec and the American Dream
An examination of various and historical connections between Quebec and the United States. Beginning in the attitudes shaped during eighteenth-century struggles between France and Britain over the Canadian landmass, then moving through the American Revolution, the Great Migration period, the United States assimilation measures of the early twentieth century, and the Quebec nationalist movement, the authors reflect on the meaning of the United States for Quebec - and vice versa. From the Between the Lines Publishing: "Chodos and Hamovitch weave a blend of anecdote, quotation, and scholarship to provide an incisive historical account of the interaction between French Canada and the political economy of the United States."Tags Acadians, Boston MA, Business and Economics, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Farming and Agriculture, Florida, Forestry, France, Government and Politics, Great Britain, Language and Linguistics, Lawrence MA, Louisiana, Madawaska ME, Massachusetts, Mills and Mill Work, Montréal QC, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Old Orchard Beach ME, Québec, Religion, United States, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
Working-Class Americanism : The Politics of Labor in a Textile City, 1914-1960
45 years of labor history from the textile mills of Woonsocket, Rhode Island. The relationships between the World Wars, American nationalism, and the attitudes of working-class, largely immigrant New Englanders in the first half of the twentieth century. Republished in 2002 by Princeton University Press with a new preface from the author. From Princeton University Press: "In this classic interpretation of the 1930s rise of industrial unionism, Gary Gerstle challenges the popular historical notion that American workers' embrace of 'Americanism' and other patriotic sentiments in the post-World War I years indicated their fundamental political conservatism. He argues that Americanism was a complex, even contradictory, language of nationalism that lent itself to a wide variety of ideological constructions in the years between World War I and the onset of the Cold War. Using the rich and textured material left behind by New England's most powerful textile union--the Independent Textile Union of Woonsocket, Rhode Island--Gerstle uncovers for the first time a more varied and more radical working-class discourse."Tags Business and Economics, Community: Customs and Social Life, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Government and Politics, Labor History, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Québec, Religion, Rhode Island, United States, Woonsocket RI -
French Canadians in Massachusetts Politics, 1885-1915 : Ethnicity and Political Pragmatism
Based on Petrin's Ph.D thesis entitled "Ethnicity and political pragmatism: The French Canadians in Massachusetts, 1885-1915" (Clark University, 1983). In-depth, statistic-full analysis of the relationship between ethnicity and politics during a 30-year period surrounding turn-of-the-century Massachusetts. Explores French Canadian citizenship, voting patterns, party politics, and interethnic conflict in light of the active streams of immigration and industrialization of that period. Examines individual city statistics.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Adams MA, Amesbury MA, Attleboro MA, Auburn MA, Boston MA, Cambridge MA, Chicopee MA, Demography, Douglas MA, Dudley MA, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Fitchburg MA, Government and Politics, Grafton MA, Hardwick MA, Haverhill MA, Holyoke MA, Language and Linguistics, Lawrence MA, Leominster MA, Lowell MA, Ludlow MA, Lynn MA, Marlboro MA, Massachusetts, Millbury MA, Montague MA, New Bedford MA, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, North Adams MA, North Brookfield MA, Northbridge MA, Oxford MA, Palmer MA, Pittsfield MA, Québec, Religion, Salem MA, Southbridge MA, Spencer MA, Springfield MA, Sturbridge MA, Sutton MA, Taunton MA, Ware MA, Webster MA, Worcester MA -
Ballots and Bibles : Ethnic Politics and the Catholic Church in Providence
From Cornell University Press: "Through her account of the newcomers' fight for political inclusion, Evelyn Savidge Sterne offers a fresh perspective on the nationwide struggle to define American identity at the turn of the twentieth century....In a departure from standard histories of immigrants and workers in the United States, 'Ballots and Bibles' views religion as a critical tool for new Americans seeking to influence public affairs. In Providence, this book demonstrates, Catholics used their parishes as political organizing spaces. Here they learned to be speakers and leaders, eventually orchestrating a successful response to Rhode Island's Americanization campaigns and claiming full membership in the nation."Tags Community: Customs and Social Life, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Government and Politics, Ireland, Italy, Labor History, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Nonfiction -- History -- Religion, Providence RI, Québec, Religion, Rhode Island, Violence, War -
Politics and Ethnocentrism : The Case of the Franco-Americans
An analysis of Brunswick and Lewiston, Maine voting patterns based on demography, involvement in ethnic social organizations, and economic scale. Walker examines poll figures beginning with the post-1860 French Canadian migration period and moving into the early 1960s. From the preface, written by James Wilson: "Professor Walker has concerned himself with the effects group existence or pluralism has on the ballot box, not with the sociology of reciprocal prejudice. In doing so, he has contributed to the list of 'they vote their own' literature. Although focus of his study is specifically on Maine, the conclusions he draws have application beyond Maine and the Franco-Americans." -
The Delights of Democracy : The Triumph of American Politics
A collection of short essays that examines American politics through the lens of the political arena in the state of Maine. Written by a Bowdoin College professor of government and legal studies. Contains a few brief chapters devoted specifically to Franco Americans: "Up Ye Mighty Francos" and "Changing Voting Patterns." In the first, Potholm speculates as to the lack of a Franco American name surfacing in the 2002 gubernatorial race, while the second attempts to categorize the "profile" of the Franco American voter. From Cooper Square Press: "In 'The Delights of Democracy,' Potholm shares his thoughts on why low voter turn-out is not exactly a bad thing, why Clinton was a good Republican president (that's right), how all political parties should be skilled in putting themselves in their opponents' position, how smart politicians can make use of public polling, how people who don't care about the abortion debate are the decisive group in votes on the issue, and more. Filled with examples from his behind-the-scenes political career, Potholm's book informs readers what Americans really mean when they call their country a democracy." -
The Canadian French in New England
Transcription of an 1881 "informal hearing" at the Massachusetts legislature regarding the publication of the annual report of the Massachusetts Labor Statistics Bureau in which the French Canadians are famously referred to as "the Chinese of the eastern states." The report argued on the point of a ten-hour workday in Massachusetts and denigrated the French Canadian immigrant population there for being an alleged hindrance to it. The hearing here contains local French Canadian reactions to the report, as well as responses from the author of the report, the Chief of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, who compiled the book at hand. Discussions about processes of immigration, repatriation to Canada, Americanization, naturalization, French Canadian desire for education, and the desire to rid reported French Canadian stereotypes of their public weight. Letters from local leaders expressing support for the French Canadian populations of their communities by attesting to their public political involvement and admirable work habits. All comments driven by the Bureau's reported assumption that French Canadians would resist a mandate limiting the workday to ten hours. Concludes in saying, "we have proved by overwhelming evidence that the statements contained in this report are groundless. We have not proved that they are malicious, but we deduce from the fact that they are false, that they have been presented to you from a malicious spirit or in a spirit which is just as sordid and despicable..." (pp.84-85). Recognizes the report's flawed data collection methods, as well as flawed samplings in largely unrepresentative communities, and excuses the use of the famous racial remark as being of the economic parlance of the times.Tags Business and Economics, Cohoes NY, Demography, Education, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Government and Politics, Hudson MA, Labor History, Lawrence MA, Lowell MA, Maine, Manville RI, Marlboro MA, Massachusetts, Mills and Mill Work, New England, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Rhode Island, Social History, Spencer MA, Troy NY, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
Death and Rebirth of the American Mill Town
Essay on the divisions of power and labor in industrialized American economies - more specifically, mill towns - as transformations of earlier forms of authority in America. Uses the thought-work of Marx, Durkheim, and Weber, as well as the social critics and historians who have applied these thinkers' theories to the historical present. From the author: "The problem of power in nineteenth century mill towns rests on a conflict between employer absolutism and the democratic rights of the employees. The treatment of power in recent community studies has been inadequate. This is particularly true in works influenced by symbolic anthropology, where the problem is seen to have been resolved in a consensual value system. However, the persistence of conflict in strikes and disorder compels an examination of the mechanisms of domination, as well as legitimacy. To this end, the ideas of Marx and Weber offer more valuable guidance than those of Durkheim." -
Two Nations : An Essay on the Culture and Politics of Canada and Quebec in a World of American Pre-Eminence
Book-length essay by two Canadian scholars on altering and asserting the political, social, and economic strengths of Canada and Quebec, respectively, amidst "American Pre-eminence" in the late 20th century. Suggestions on efforts to reshape Canadian popular culture in a rejection of American imperial dominance. -
The Trial Statements of Ray Luc Levasseur
Ray Luc Levasseur's statements from the 1989 criminal trial where he represented himself against accusations of racketeering. He places himself and a working-class Franco (Sanford, Maine) upbringing in the course of an American class struggle, weaving his personal history through the international political tumult of the 1960s and 1970s. One published statement is now entitled "From the Shadows of the Mills," and can be read at the URL below. -
Thrust and Counterthrust : The Genesis of the Canada-United States Boundary
History of borderlands and border disputes between the United States and Canada. Chapter 1 is dedicated to the early-nineteenth-century St. John River Valley border dispute and the Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842) that solidified the division between present day New Brunswick and Maine. -
"This is Not a Catholic Nation" : The Ku Klux Klan Confronts Franco-Americans in Maine
From MIT Press Journals: "During the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan expanded to the northeastern United States, where it confronted Franco-American Catholics throughout Maine. In response, this ethnic population modeled an appropriate resistance to the KKK's unyielding message of Americanism and nativism, helping to precipitate the demise of this reactionary mass movement." -
The Francophone "Conquest" of New England : Geopolitical Conceptions and Imperial Ambition of French-Canadian Nationalists in the Nineteenth Century
From the author:" 'Les Canadiens Français de la Nouvelle-Angleterre' (1891) by the French Jesuit Edouard Hamon is representative of Quebec imperialist thought. Hamon envisioned a peaceful conquest of New England by a surplus French-Canadian population, capable of resisting Americanization, laboring in the mills, and farming the countryside. Hamon suggested bonds between established Quebec churches and churches in northern New England. He favored a sovereign nation formed out of Quebec and Franco-American New England. Hamon's work was warmly received by French Canadians and Franco-Americans, although it awakened nativist suspicion in the United States."Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Criticism and Review, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Government and Politics, Labor History, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- French in North America, Nonfiction -- Geography, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Québec, Religion, United States -
Québec and Economic Interdependence with the United States : A Focus on Hydro-Québec
Essay on hydroelectricity as an international commerce platform, with a specific focus on the relationship between Québec and New York state - the former selling hydroelectric power to the latter. The author considers the environmental and economic benefits for the United States of using hydroelectricity generated by and purchased from Hydro-Québec.Tags Alabama, Business and Economics, Connecticut, Government and Politics, Kentucky, Language and Linguistics, Massachusetts, New Brunswick, New York, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Québec, Vermont, West Virginia -
Language Planning and Language Use : Canada's National Capital Area
Discussion on Canadian government service "language planning" in light of its official bilingual status. Particular attention is paid to the percentage of federal employee positions that, before unilingual, are now slated and anticipated to be held by bilingual people. Other attention is paid specifically to where efforts at bilingual accomodation are made to preserve Canadian confederation from, for example, the growing percentage of francophone Quebecers reliant solely upon unilingual provincial services, or anglophone Canadians resistant to minority language. Some distinction is made between what the author terms the "personality" and the "territorial" principles of bilingualism. -
French Patterns in Québec and New England
Thoughts on political and cultural attitudes in Québec with particular reference to the war effort. Ham interrogates New England French Canadian minority culture to examine more intimately the general political thought-processes of WWII-era Québec. From the text: "...no critic should attempt an estimate of Québec internationalism without reference as well to the French-Canadian attitude in New England." -
'Monsieur Maurras est ici' : French Fascism in Franco-American New England
Essay on the Franco American elite's adopted regard for French fascist politics and sentiment in New England. How WWII heightened political divisions in the United States, and the Franco elite failed to appeal politically to working-class Franco American communities. Includes discussion of 1920s and 30s Franco American political figures, as well as an exploration of the Sentinelle Affair vis-à -vis French fascism.Tags Biddeford ME, Central Falls RI, Chicopee MA, Cohoes NY, Demography, Education, Essay, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, France, Government and Politics, Holyoke MA, Language and Linguistics, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Manchester NH, Nashua NH, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Québec, Quinebaug River Valley, Violence, War, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
An Analysis of Canadian Bilingual Districts Policy
A paper looking into the location and development of Bilingual Districts in Canada - meaning, the establishment of outposts of Canadian federal services that can take place in both English and French to serve a population that has significant percentages (greater than a 10% collective) of people who speak one language or the other in the minority. The author evaluates how proclaiming certain districts and not others "bilingual" can have an effect on the perception of that region, on the psychology surrounding assimilation, and on the population in that region keen to the language politics active in its surroundings. -
English-speaking Quebec in the Light of Its Reaction to Bill 22
An evaluation of reactions to, condemnations of, and opinions relative to Québec's 1974 passage of Bill 22 - making law the preference and predominance of the French language in that province. Much of the hubbub surrounding this bill was created by its opponents who cited, among other things, its imposition on freedom of linguistic choice, or its strangulation of a parent's choice of the language in which one's child might be schooled. The author of this article used information gathered from English-speaking Québecers and English-language newspapers from the province. His ultimate argument is for the bill to be repealed, claiming, in the words of other opponents, that it is "a repressive piece of legislation" that pays scant attention to Québec's anglophone minorities. -
The French Canadians Outside of Québec
Brief essay from an early twentieth-century Canadian senator on the presence of French Canadians in the United States and the provinces of Canada.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Biddeford ME, California, Canada, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Exploration and Colonization, Fall River MA, Geography, Haverhill MA, Holyoke MA, Lawrence MA, Lewiston ME, Louisiana, Lowell MA, Manchester NH, New Bedford MA, New Brunswick, New England, New Mexico, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Nonfiction -- Social Sciences, Ontario, Oregon, Providence RI, Québec, Southbridge MA, Springfield MA, US Midwest, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
Madawaska : A Chapter in Maine-New Brunswick Relations
History of the Madawaska border region of the Upper Saint John River Valley as a meeting point of New Brunswick and the state of Maine. Madawaska as an area of political negotiation, a borderland infused with geographic and political meaning in the middle of the twentieth century. From a review in George Findlen's "Genealogist's Handbook for Upper Saint John Valley Research" : "Although much of her work deals with the big picture of the frontier and of the relationship between Maine and New Brunswick, she still gives a lot of space to the mostly Acadian population caught in between." Republished by the Madawaska Historical Society in 1975.Tags Acadians, Canada, Community: Customs and Social Life, Emigration and Immigration, Exploration and Colonization, France, Geography, Government and Politics, Madawaska ME, Maine, Native Americans, New Brunswick, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- French in North America, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Religion, St. John River Valley, United States -
The Need for Bilingual Education in the Schools of Vermont
Argument toward implementing a bilingual education program in the public schools of the state of Vermont. Written in the context of the 1968 United States congressional discussions about funding bilingual education in general, and the scope of languages to which congress would propose attention. Uses Vermont as a case study in language demographics. Presents the author's collection of data concerning Vermont language usage, geographic distribution of children with limited English-speaking ability, and other factors pertinent to the federal legislation in question. While the dissertation engages bilingual education as a national phenomenon involving many languages other than English, the specific case of Vermont orientates the author toward the language realities of that state, the bulk of non-English speakers being represented in populations of French-speaking Franco Americans there. Contains an overview of scholarship on bilingualism.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Albany VT, Alburg VT, Bakersfield VT, Barnet VT, Barre VT, Barton VT, Bennington VT, Berkshire VT, Brandon VT, Brattleboro VT, Brighton VT, Brownington VT, Burlington VT, Canaan VT, Charleston VT, Charlotte VT, Clarendon VT, Colchester VT, Coventry VT, Demography, Derby VT, Eden VT, Education, Enosburg Falls VT, Essex VT, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fair Haven VT, Fairfax VT, Ferrisburgh VT, Franklin VT, Georgia VT, Government and Politics, Hanover NH, Hardwick VT, Highgate VT, Holland VT, Hyde Park VT, Irasburg VT, Jay VT, Jericho VT, Language and Linguistics, Lowell VT, Lyndon VT, Manchester VT, Middlebury VT, Middlesex VT, Milton VT, Montgomery VT, Montpelier VT, Morristown VT, New Haven VT, Newbury VT, Newport VT, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Education, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Nonfiction -- Language and Linguistics, Norton VT, Orange VT, Orleans County VT, Pownal VT, Proctor VT, Putney VT, Richford VT, Richmond VT, Rockingham VT, Rutland VT, Shelburne VT, Sheldon VT, South Burlington VT, Springfield VT, St. Albans VT, St. Johnsbury VT, Stowe VT, Sutton VT, Swanton VT, Troy VT, Vergennes VT, Vermont, Walden VT, West Rutland VT, Westfield VT, Westford VT, Westminster VT, Whiting VT, Williamstown VT, Wilmington VT, Windsor VT, Wolcott VT -
The Role of Fr. Jean-Baptiste Proulx in the Danielson Affair and in the Manitoba School Question
From the author: "The thesis is an examination of the role of Fr. Jean-Baptiste Proulx as an intermediary for the French-Canadian laity at St. James' Church in Danielson, Connecticut in the parish discord known as the Danielson Affair, and as a secret ambassador of Prime Minister Wilfred Laurier for negotiations with Pope Leo XIII in order to settle the Manitoba School Question in 1896. The thesis re-examines the histories that have been written about Fr. Proulx's role in both historical events, and the histories that are examined are the book and dissertation by Sr. Dolores Liptak, European Immigrants and the Catholic Church in Connecticut, 1870-1920, and Robert Rumilly's Histoire des Franco-Américains and volumes eight and nine of his series, Histoire de la Province du Québec. ... The sources that are used to re-examine the histories are sources that Robert Rumilly used, such as the Papers of Fr. Proulx that are held by the National Archives of Quebec at Montreal, as well as Fr. Proulx's own account as an intermediary in the Danielson Affair, entitled: "Journal of My Steps and Walks in the Diocese of Hartford on the Subject of Danielson by the Reverend J.B. Proulx, Parish Priest of St. Lin." Also used are several contemporary newspapers in Connecticut, as well as three French-language newspapers that were published in Montreal and in Southern New England. In the analysis of the Danielson Affair and the Manitoba School Question, the thesis examines the development of several documents in light of either historical event. ... Also, the thesis analyzes two speeches from the Eleventh Convention of the Canadiens-Américains du Connecticut that was held in September 1896, and how they became two documents about the Danielson Affair that were forwarded to Fr. Proulx while he was in Rome. Other documents that are examined are the decision of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors on the contested election of lay trustees at St. James' Church in Danielson, known as 'State ex rel. George Barry vs. Eli Getty and James Reynolds,' and the response by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hartford to the said decision that changed the state laws for the incorporation of Catholic parishes, 'An Act concerning the Organization of Roman Catholic Churches' in 1903." -
Living Arrangements : Race, Ethnicity and Nationality in the Liberal State
From the author: "Liberals usually argue that cultural identity can flourish in the private sphere but should not matter in public. This argument is blind to the way liberal institutions affect cultural identity, the prejudices that members of some groups face, and the need for there to be only one or two public languages in most modern states. To fill this gap in liberal theory, I divide cultural groups into three: racial, ethnic and national groups. I explore this gap by looking at four groups: American Jews, the Amish, Black Americans and French Canadians....I argue that liberal citizenship transforms ethnic identity, making it difficult though not impossible to maintain strong ethnic ties in the liberal state. I defend these effects on ethnic identity, though I also argue that there is often too much pressure on ethnics to give up their particular practices. Liberal citizenship, though, has not transformed the identity of the Amish, who maintain their identity through a voluntary radical separation from the rest of society. The Amish treasure hierarchical and patriarchal illiberal values, but liberal toleration means that the liberal state should do little about this. Black Americans also have a distinctive culture, not from voluntary separation, but as a consequence of racism. For Blacks to gain equal citizenship, the liberal state must work to make Black citizenship visible and allow Blacks to bypass the effects of racism. This is contrary to the usual liberal argument of making issues of identity private matters. If Blacks gain liberal citizenship their identity would change considerably, just as liberal citizenship has transformed ethnic identity....Many people claim their cultural identity is tied to a particular language, yet most languages have a hard time surviving in industrialized, liberal states. I explain the conditions that languages need to survive. I contend, paradoxically, that because liberalism transforms ethnic identity, liberalism increases the importance of language to the identity of some. While liberalism and nationalism are usually antagonistic, I sketch out a compromise between language-based nationalism and liberalism. I end the dissertation by pointing out the implications my argument has for educational policy and for liberal theory." -
The Spindle City : Labor, Politics, and Religion in Fall River, Massachusetts, 1870-1905
The place of Fall River, Massachusetts, in the United States' 19th-century industrial boom, its ensuing period of immigration and cultural diversification, and the birth of the American middle class. A massive and in-depth dissertation that pays particular attention to ethnic and class distinctions as treated in the political atmosphere of the 35 year period around the turn of the century.Tags Community: Customs and Social Life, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Fall River MA, Government and Politics, Labor History, Massachusetts, Mills and Mill Work, Native Americans, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- History -- Religion, Quequechan River Valley, Religion, Social History, Taunton River Valley -
Tradition and Change in the Gilded Age : Political History of Massachusetts, 1879-1893
Massachusetts politics during fifteen years within the industrial and early immigration periods of the late 19th century. From Harmond: "As this study seeks to show, Massachusetts confronted a dual set of challenges in the post-Reconstruction era. In the first place, the Irish-Americans and workingmen, provoked by their marginal status, united in a political revolt to obtain greater recognition and benefits for themselves. From 1878 to 1883 this ethnic-labor insurrection, led by Benjamin F. Butler, was the focus of Massachusetts politics....Secondly, the accelerated tempo of industrial and technological change spawnwed a spirirt of on-rushing materialism which threatened the Commonwealth's traditional business and political mores. Investors in the newly-developed water gas process, and the electric trolley, for example, resorted to extensive lobbying to secure favors from the legislature. One result was a series of scandals in the middle and later 1880s endangering the state's relatively high level of public morality....On the whole, Massachusetts met these challenges well. Under the leadership of members of the Yankee establishment, a conservative, but realistic, attempt was made to accomodate the needs of a new day to the Bay State's intellectual and political heritage." -
The French-Canadian Ethnic Factor in Maine Politics
Study of links between French ethnicity and voting in Maine in the 20th century. Franco American voting patterns, and the recent history of the Franco American voting bloc in Maine state politics. -
A Political History of Lewiston, Maine (1930-39)
Government and politics in the industrial city of Lewiston, Maine, in the midst of the Great Depression. -
Constant Turmoil : The Politics of Industrial Life in Nineteenth-Century New England
Book-length social history exploring the development of industry, industrial life, and the power of the politics surrounding them in southeastern New England - especially Fall River, Massachusetts - in the nineteenth century. Discussions of gender in the contexts of textile mill work and labor unionism; immigrant workforces, class consciousness, and inter-worker strife. Includes a critical assessment of primary sources consulted, as well as an appendix with demographic and economic data tables referred to in the text.Tags Business and Economics, Connecticut, Coventry RI, English Americans, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Gender and Sexuality, Government and Politics, Irish Americans, Labor History, Lowell MA, Massachusetts, Meriden CT, Mills and Mill Work, New Bedford MA, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Norwalk CT, Providence RI, Quequechan River Valley, Rhode Island, Social History -
Margaret Chase Smith : The Persistence of a Political Archetype
Article describing the political method and image of former Maine Republican congresswoman, Margaret Chase Smith. The paradigmatic elements of her political tenure and their subsequent impact on the shapes of later Maine political campaigns and leadership styles. Particular emphasis on the successes of Maine moderates William Cohen, Olympia Snowe, and Susan Collins. The major elements of a "Margaret Chase Smith archetype" : independent leadership style and stance, support for national defense, and an identification with hard work and the working class. The ways in which Smith's successful followers in government imitated these elements, or how notable political defeats relate to a candidate's departures from her moderate archetype. Discussion of Smith's little acknowledged French Canadian roots.Tags Androscoggin County ME, Auburn ME, Augusta ME, Brunswick ME, Cape Elizabeth ME, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Gender and Sexuality, Government and Politics, Hancock County ME, Kittery ME, Lewiston ME, Lincoln County ME, Lisbon Falls ME, Lisbon ME, Maine, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Penobscot County ME, Saco ME, Sanford ME, Skowhegan ME, Waldo County ME, War, Washington DC, Waterville ME, Westbrook ME -
This Splendid Game : Maine Campaigns and Elections, 1940-2002
An insider's analysis of Maine politics from World War II to the beginning of the 21st century. Close reading and critical examination of one major election in each of the decades between 1940 and 2000: their historical contexts, their candidates or issues, and the campaigns that influenced their outcomes. Includes analyses of elections involving such characters as Margaret Chase Smith, Ed Muskie, Ken Curtis, Elmer Violette, Bill Cohen, Angus King, and Susan Collins. The public approaches that led to their success or failure; the impact of these campaigns and elections on Maine politics more broadly. The shape of Maine political parties by the end of the 20th century. Election analysis after 1970 includes the author's own experiences in Maine politics. -
The Presidential Politics of the Franco Americans
Interpretation of Franco American presidential voting behavior in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island previous to 1962. Takes into account wavering levels of ethnic solidarity, changes in economic class position, religious affiliation, and other historical contexts. Ultimately predicts the demise of "any such political phenomenon as the 'French vote.'"Tags Berlin NH, Biddeford ME, Brunswick ME, Central Falls RI, Chicopee MA, Claremont NH, Demography, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Fitchburg MA, Franklin NH, Gardner MA, Government and Politics, Holyoke MA, Laconia NH, Leominster MA, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Madawaska ME, Manchester NH, Mexico ME, Nashua NH, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, North Adams MA, Pawtucket RI, Rochester NH, Rumford ME, Sanford ME, Somersworth NH, Southbridge MA, Van Buren ME, Waterville ME, Winslow ME, Woonsocket RI -
The Oldest and Most Resistant Section of the Border
Article describing the historical and cultural conditions of the North American border between United States and Canada, particularly its shapes between the United States and the province of Québec. The author's argument that the Canada-US border persists precisely because of the distinctiveness of Québec culture and politics. Québec's relationship with the United States in terms of 18th and 19th century political disputes; migration; industrialization; trade; Québec's movement toward sovereignty; cultural affairs; and party politics dynamics in the 20th century. How popular attitudes toward the United States compare between Québecers and other Canadians; how international borders compare to interprovincial borders.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Business and Economics, Canada, Emigration and Immigration, Film and Television, Government and Politics, Great Britain, Language and Linguistics, New England, New York, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, North America, Ontario, Québec, United States, Vermont -
Cultural Sovereignty, Identity, and North American Integration : On the Relevance of the U.S.-Canada-Quebec Border
Article exploring cultural policies implemented by Canada and Québec governments to both protect and promote cultural industries and indigenous cultural forms. The function of these policies in shaping national identities. The impact of these policies on Canada-U.S. relations. Canadian policy as response to American cultural industries. How international trade through the lens of FTA, NAFTA, and the WTO relate to Canadian cultural industry and identity politics. -
The French Fact : Linguistic Challenge, Demographic Reality, Political Distortion
Essay on the realities of bilingualism in Canada, specifically in Québec. Projections for the future of the French language there with respect to human movement, population, and linguistic assimilation to English. Acknowledges the political strength and vocalization of Québec City has impacted ("distorted") actual popular arguments in defense of the French language -
Language and Nationalism : Two Integrative Essays
From ERIC: "The extent to which the language planning that has been pursued in many localities and in many periods has been guided by nationalism, that is, by '...the social movements, attitudes, and ideologies which characterize the behavior of nationalities engaged in the struggle to achieve, maintain or enhance their position in the world' (Wirth 1936) is examined in this text. The study familiarizes the reader with the formations and the transformations of nationalism itself, and also examines how and why language commonly comes to be one of the ingredients in nationalist goals and programs..." -
La situation religieuse aux États-Unis : illusions et réalités
Une histoire et une critique de l'église Catholique romain aux États-Unis, écrit par un scolaire français. -
Migrants and Millworkers : The French Canadian Population of Burlington and Colchester, 1860-1870
Article describing the growth of the French Canadian population in Vermont around the time of the American Civil War, and the differences of Canadian immigrant labor, property ownership, and political activity in select Vermont cities, as well as between those of other New England textile centers of the same time period. Steady growth of unskilled laborers and relative decline of economic conditions among Vermont's growing French Canadian population between 1850 and 1870. Separate social, economic, and political developments of Burlington, Winooski Falls, and greater Colchester that can be traced to Burlington's incorporation in the 1860s. Research on variances in property ownership among French Canadian immigrants in these locations, as well as their rates of naturalization, English fluency, and relevant voting laws. Includes tables with figures on occupational status, childbirths, and youth labor. Subtitled, "The high level of political activity of Colchester's French Canadians contrasted sharply to that of Burlington émigrés." -
Disobedient Ancestors
Personal and historical essay weaving a son's reflections on his Québec-born, rebellious, itinerant father through the changing shape of Catholicism in New France, Lower Canada, and Québec into the 21st century. The persistent grip of a longtime North American family's roots. His father's formative youth and later hatred of clergy, their tenuous relationship, the power of cultural narrative, and the shapes that one's departing quests from them can take. -
L'identité de l'immigrant québécois en Nouvelle-Angleterre : le rapport Wright de 1882
Un portrait historique de la réponse publique au rapport infâme écrit par Carrol Wright et du Bureau of Labor Statistics du Massachusetts, 1881, dans le contexte de l'immigration canadienne-française classe ouvrière, de la communauté, et de l'identité. Des renseignements biographiques sur Carroll Wright. Activité journalistique dans les communautés franco américaines, en particulier autour de l'œuvre de Ferdinand Gagnon et Hugo A. Dubuque, à l'époque. Réactions au rapport 1881 comme éléments significatifs au notre compréhension de l'identité des immigrants en Nouvelle-Angleterre au 19ème siècle. Référence à l'œuvre historique de Frances Early et un rapport fédéral subséquent sur le travail et le capital qui traite les travailleurs immigrants canadiens-français.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Baltic CT, Cohoes NY, Connecticut, Dunbarton NH, Fall River MA, Grosvenordale CT, Holyoke MA, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Manville RI, Massachusetts, Merrimack River Valley, Mills and Mill Work, Nashua NH, New England, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- Immigration, Plattsburgh NY, Putnam CT, Québec, Rhode Island, Troy NY, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
Commemorating a Transnational Hero : The 1909 Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Discovery of Lake Champlain
Article describing and comparing American and Canadian commemorations of the 17th century French explorer, Samuel de Champlain, around Lake Champlain in 1908 and 1909. Champlain as a celebrated "transnational" figure, and the imagery associated with his accomplishments from either side of the USA/Canada border. Particular elements of the celebrations and their suggestions for political, social, and memorial climates of the time. Emphasis on understanding a United States claim to Champlain as national historic figure, and the tercentenary celebration as an American and Canadian reconciliation. Local justification for celebration in New York and VermontTags Burlington VT, Canada, Crown Point NY, England, Exploration and Colonization, Fort Ticonderoga NY, France, Iroquois, Isle LaMotte VT, Lake Champlain VT, New York, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Geography, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Nonfiction -- History -- French in North America, Nonfiction -- Travel and Tourism, Plattsburgh NY, Québec, Québec QC, Saranac River Valley, Swanton VT, United States, Vergennes VT, Vermont, War -
Soldiers from the Farther North : A Research Note on Canadians in the Union Army in the American Civil War
Article describing the participation of French and English Canadians in the United States Civil War. Justifications for participation - economic, political, personal, and otherwise - from primary and secondary source literature. Domestic Canadian and international implications for Canadian activity in US war. Complications of citizenship and participant moral attitudes toward nationalism, slavery, and other issues. Questions directed toward the complexities surrounding wartime immigration, travel, and/or displacement, and suggestions for further research in family and other archival collections. -
"Speak White" : Language Policy, Immigration, Discourse, and Tactical Authenticity in a French Enclave in New England
Article analyzing the Sentinelle Affair in 1920s Rhode Island as a case study in <i>la survivance</i>, for the role of language politics in spectres of assimilation and white ethnicity in the United States, and as a lens to the political economies that have historically upheld English Only language policy arguments. An expansive reading of Sentinellist responses to American Catholic Church English language policies for parochial schools. How events like the Sentinelle Affair imply what have been historical, multifaceted linguistic realities in education throughout the United States, and in particular in New England French-heritage enclaves of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Argument in favor of Franco American "settlement" in New England as best understood in the discourse of diaspora instead of the "resistance-assimilation" dichotomy that often accompanies discussions of local culture in American immigration. -
Les Franco-Américains dans la guerre : patriotisme et survivance
Article journal sur la participation militaire des canadiens-français aux conflits américains: les guerres d'Indépendence et de Sécession, les Guerres mondiales, etc. Quelques descriptions des hommes canadien-français et franco-américains bien-connus pour leur service militaire ou leurs expressions d'une patriotisme américain dans le 20e siècle. Explorations de la phénomène de la guerre comme entrée franco-américaine dans la discussion de l'identité culturelle et nationale; des attitudes franco-américains envers le Canada, le Québec, et le France; des négotiations de "l'élite franco-américain" pour un héritage français aux États-Unis par des périodes d'un patriotisme intensifié américain. La guerre américaine en tant que site de la dualité culturelle franco-américain.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Boston MA, Canada, Clubs and Societies, Cooperville NY, Fall River MA, Lake Champlain VT, Lowell MA, Malone NY, Manchester NH, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Nonfiction -- History -- General, Nonfiction -- Immigration, Oswego NY, Québec, Rouse's Point VT, War, Whitehall NY, Woonsocket RI