Frog Town

Laurence Armand French, PhD, is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, and the International College of Prescribing Psychologists. He is a clinical licensed psychologist and a professor emeritus of psychology at Western New Mexico University.

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.

• 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