Frog Town

Portrait of a French Canadian Parish in New England

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

Av Laurence Armand French

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Frog Towndescribes in detail a French Canadian parish that was unique due to the high density of both Acadian and Quebecois settlers that were situated in a Yankee stronghold of Puritan stock. This demography provided for a volatile history that accentuated the inter-ethnic/sectarian conflicts of the time. In this book, Laurence Armand French discusses the work, language, and social activities of the working-class French Canadians during the changing times that transformed them from French Canadians to Franco Americans. French also articulates the current double-standard of justice within New Hampshire with details of actual cases, presented alongside their circumstances and judicial outcomes, to offer a thorough depiction of the community of Frog Town.

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Utgivningsdatum2014-07-08
Mått161 x 236 x 25 mm
Vikt567 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor294
FörlagUniversity Press of America
ISBN9780761863830

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PrefaceChapter One: A Geo-Political Historical FrameworkIntroduction: Understanding Human and Group BehaviorsThe Function of Creation Myths: Giving Meaning to Life and BelongingCatholicism, Protestantism, and CapitalismColonial Wars in North America: The British/French-Protestant/Catholic RiftChapter Two: Manifest Destiny and Empire Building in the Americas: A History DifferentThe Politics of WASP Superiority and the Road to Race and Ethnic IntoleranceThe French and Indian War and the Emerging Military Aristocracy and Local HeroesThe Acadian Expulsion: The Prototype of Ethnic Cleansing and Cultural Genocide “We the (Chosen) People (Enfranchised, White Protestant Adult Males) of the United States….” Manifest Destiny and Indian Removal: The U.S. Policies of Cultural and Physical Genocide “Might Makes Right”: The Means of U.S. Expansionism and ImperialismChapter Three: French-Canadians in Yankee-Land: A Workforce for an Emerging Industrial Giant Comes Into Its Own as Franco AmericansP

Frog Town is an original and informative work. It combines personal experience and family history with sociology, anthropology, legal history, and social history. The work is unique in this area in that it treats the Franco-American experience and history from the perspectives of both the Francophone and the Anglophone populations. Ranging historically from the early French and British settlements of North America to present Franco-American culture and recent legal cases in New Hampshire Frog Town gives a comprehensive and synthetic overview of the topic.