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Exiles and Islanders
The Irish Settlers of Prince Edward Island
Häftad, 2004
430 kr
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Exiles and Islanders describes Irish settlement in Prince Edward Island from 1763 to 1880. By tracing the history of these early settlers, Brendan O'Grady demolishes the myth that the Island's Irish settlers were largely refugees from the Great Potato Famine. Using a wide variety of sources, …
North American Gaels
Speech, Story, and Song in the Diaspora
Av Natasha Sumner, Aidan Doyle
Häftad, 2020
684 kr
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A mere 150 years ago Scottish Gaelic was the third most widely spoken language in Canada, and Irish was spoken by hundreds of thousands of people in the United States. A new awareness of the large North American Gaelic diaspora, long overlooked by historians, folklorists, and literary scholars, has …
Invisible Community
Being South Asian in Quebec
Av Mahsa Bakhshaei, Marie Mc Andrew m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
483 kr
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The South Asian population in Canada, encompassing diverse national, ethnic, and religious backgrounds, has in recent years become the largest visible minority in the country. As this community grows, it encounters challenges in settlement, integration, and development.Accounting for only 1 per …
With Your Words in My Hands
The Letters of Antonietta Petris and Loris Palma
Häftad, 2021
513 kr
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Following Antonietta and Loris's first kiss in the shadows of the Italian Alps barely a year after the end of the Second World War, the couple was divided by a distance far greater than could ever have been imagined. With Antonietta's family moving to Montreal, migration entered the couple's …
Least Possible Fuss and Publicity
The Politics of Immigration in Postwar Canada, 1945-1967
Inbunden, 2021
1045 kr
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Over the two decades following the Second World War, the policy that would create "a nation of immigrants," as Canadian multiculturalism is now widely understood, was debated, drafted, and implemented. The established narrative of postwar immigration policy as a tepid mixture of altruism and …
Peronism As a Big Tent
The Political Inclusion of Arab Immigrants in Argentina
Av Raanan Rein, Ariel Noyjovich
Inbunden, 2022
847 kr
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Argentina's populist movement, led by Juan Perón, welcomed people from a broad range of cultural backgrounds to join its ranks. Unlike most populist movements in Europe and North America, Peronism had an inclusive nature, rejecting racism and xenophobia.In Peronism as a Big Tent Raanan Rein and …
Boundaries of Ethnicity
German Immigration and the Language of Belonging in Ontario
Inbunden, 2022
1507 kr
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, European settlers from diverse backgrounds transformed Ontario. By 1881, German speakers made up almost ten per cent of the province’s population and the German language was spoken in businesses, public schools, churches, and homes. German …
Boundaries of Ethnicity
German Immigration and the Language of Belonging in Ontario
Häftad, 2022
454 kr
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, European settlers from diverse backgrounds transformed Ontario. By 1881, German speakers made up almost ten per cent of the province’s population and the German language was spoken in businesses, public schools, churches, and homes. German …
Before We Disappear Into Oblivion
San Francisco's Russian Diaspora from Revolution to Cold War
Av Nina Bogdan
Häftad, 2025
396 kr
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The October 1917 Russian Revolution and the subsequent Civil War triggered a mass exodus from Russia. Thousands boarded ships heading for California. Before We Disappear into Oblivion chronicles the struggles of members of the Russian diaspora in San Francisco and northern California as they built …
Canada and the Great Irish Famine
Häftad, 2025
512 kr
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In the summer of 1847, over four hundred ships arrived in the Gulf of St Lawrence, carrying Irish men, women, and children who were fleeing the starvation and misery of the Great Potato Famine. Tens of thousands of famine refugees rebuilt their lives in different parts of Canada, in places urban …
Transnational Italians and the Culture of Everyday Life
Häftad, 2026
458 kr
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Departing from conventional community-based histories, this innovative work examines how immigrant identities are transformed into transnational ones. Focusing on families from the Campania region of Italy who settled in Toronto, Ontario, and Buenos Aires, Argentina, after 1945, Transnational …
From Britain to Brazil
Migrant Histories in the 1890s
Häftad, 2027
421 kr
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In the early 1890s, nearly three thousand emigrants from towns and cities across Britain and Ireland were lured to Brazil by promises of free passage, work, and land. Instead, after arriving in South America they endured extreme hardship, wandering thousands of miles in search of employment and aid …
Linguistics and Poetics of Latvian Folksongs
Inbunden, 1989
1633 kr
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Created in honour of the sesquicentennial of the birth of Kristian Barons, the original compiler, classifier, and publisher of close to 182,000 Latvian folk song texts, Linguistics and Poetics of Latvian Folksongs provides an overview of recent research on the dainas and will be of interest to …
Best Left As Indians
Native-White Relations in the Yukon Territory, 1840-1973
Av Ken Coates
Häftad, 1993
426 kr
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The indigenous population, Coates stresses, has not been passive in the face of expansion by whites. He argues that Native people have played a major role in shaping the history of the region and determining the relationship with the immigrant population. They recognized the conflict between the …
People of Glengarry
Highlanders in Transition, 1745-1820
Häftad, 1993
430 kr
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Using a wide array of published and unpublished sources, McLean examines in detail nine group emigrations that left western Inverness between 1785 and 1802 for Glengarry County in Upper Canada (now Ontario). She describes how, once in North America, they built a new Highland community in an attempt …
Patriots and Proletarians
Politicizing Hungarian Immigrants in Interwar Canada
Inbunden, 1994
1410 kr
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Hungarian immigrants' status as foreigners and their disadvantageous class position prevented them from gaining power in Canadian society, forcing them to rely almost exclusively on ideologies and institutions within their own communities to better their situation. Focusing on the social and …
Four Quarters of the Night
The Life-Journey of an Emigrant Sikh
Av Tara Singh Bains, Hugh Johnston
Häftad, 1995
415 kr
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Identifying himself as both an Indian and a Canadian but first and foremost a Sikh, Tara Singh has shuttled back and forth between Canada and India for most of his life, finding personal harmony while incorporating two very different countries and cultures into his life. Tara Singh was raised …
Journey to Vaja
Reconstructing the World of a Hungarian-Jewish Family
Häftad, 1996
406 kr
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Northeastern Hungary was full of places like the village of Vaja, where Jews had farmed for generations. Naves's ancestors had tilled Hungarian soil since the eighteenth century. They had married into similar farming families and maintained a lifestyle at once agricultural, orthodox, and …
Inside Ethnic Families
Three Generations of Portuguese-Canadians
Av Edite Noivo
Häftad, 1999
455 kr
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Noivo examines how the intersection of migration and family projects affect kin ties, analyses the multiple burdens generated by migration, class, gender, generation, and minority status, and discusses the interplay between family and economic life. Although forced to cope with marital and …
Brigh an Òrain - a Story in Every Song
Av Lauchie MacLellan, John Shaw m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
901 kr
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Few published collections of Gaelic song place the songs or their singers and communities in context. Brìgh an Òrain - A Story in Every Song corrects this, showing how the inherited art of a fourth-generation Canadian Gael fits within biographical, social, and historical contexts. It is the first …
White Canada Forever
Popular Attitudes and Public Policy Toward Orientals in British Columbia
Av Peter Ward
Häftad, 2002
397 kr
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Ward draws upon a rich record of events and opinion in the provincial press, manuscript collections, and successive federal enquiries and royal commissions on Asian immigration. He locates the origins of west coast racism in the frustrated vision of a white British Columbia and an unshakeable …
Enemy Aliens, Prisoners of War
Internment in Canada During the Great War
Inbunden, 2002
542 kr
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Focusing on these and other thematic issues, Bohdan Kordan assesses the policy and practice of civilian internment in Canada during the Great War and provides a clear yet critical statement about the complex and troubling nature of this experience. Period photographs and first person accounts …
Tortillas and Tomatoes
Transmigrant Mexican Harvesters in Canada
Av Tanya Basok
Häftad, 2003
414 kr
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Based on interviews with Leamington greenhouse growers and migrant Mexican workers, Tanya Basok offers a timely analysis of why the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program is needed. She argues that while Mexican workers do not necessarily constitute cheap labour for Canadian growers, they are vital …
Kingdom of the Mind
How the Scots Helped Make Canada
Av Peter E. Rider, Heather McNabb
Häftad, 2006
426 kr
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An eclectic selection of historical essays demonstrates the early influence of the Scots in shaping Canada
Drum Songs
Glimpses of Dene History
Av Kerry Abel
Häftad, 2005
426 kr
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Examines the history of the Dene, one of the aboriginal peoples of Canada's western subarctic, from ancient times to the present
Ethnic Relations in Canada
Institutional Dynamics
Häftad, 2005
455 kr
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The collected writings of a leading authority on Canada's ethnic and linguistic diversity.
New England and the Maritime Provinces
Connections and Comparisons
Av Stephen J. Hornsby, John G. Reid
Häftad, 2006
430 kr
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A wide-reaching, interdisciplinary examination of the links between New England and the Maritimes.
Emigrant Worlds and Transatlantic Communities
Migration to Upper Canada in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
Häftad, 2007
430 kr
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A study of "leaving home" and the experiences of British and Irish migrants as they made their way to Upper Canada.
Irish Nationalism in Canada
Häftad, 2009
386 kr
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According to conventional historical wisdom, Irish nationalism in Canada was a marginal phenomenon - overshadowed by the more powerful movement in the United States and eclipsed in Canada by the Orange Order. The nine contributors in this book argue otherwise - and in doing so make a major and …
Old and New World Highland Bagpiping
Häftad, 2011
455 kr
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The work is the result of over thirty years of oral fieldwork among the last Gaels in Cape Breton, for whom piping fit unself-consciously into community life, as well as an exhaustive synthesis of Scottish archival and secondary sources. Reflecting the invaluable memories of now-deceased new world …
