Download or read book The French in America 1488 1974 written by James S. Pula and published by Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. : Oceana Publications. This book was released on 1975 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life and contributions of the French in America through a chronology and pertinent documents.
Download or read book The French in America 1488 1974 written by James S. Pula and published by Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. : Oceana Publications. This book was released on 1975 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life and contributions of the French in America through a chronology and pertinent documents.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of North American Immigration written by John Powell and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an illustrated A-Z reference containing more than 300 entries related to immigration to North America, including people, places, legislation, and more.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Local History written by Carol Kammen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is local history thought about? How should it be approached? Through brief, succinct notes and essay-length entries, the Encyclopedia of Local History presents ideas to consider, sources to use, historical fields and trends to explore. It also provides commentary on a number of subjects, including the everyday topics that most local historians encounter. A handy reference tool that no public historian's desk should be without!
Download or read book Language and Linguistic Diversity in the US written by Susan Tamasi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly engaging textbook presents a linguistic view of the history, society, and culture of the United States. It discusses the many languages and forms of language that have been used in the US – including standard and nonstandard forms of English, creoles, Native American languages, and immigrant languages from across the globe – and shows how this distribution and diversity of languages has helped shape and define America as well as an American identity. The volume introduces the basic concepts of sociolinguistics and the politics of language through cohesive, up-to-date and accessible coverage of such key topics as dialectal development and the role of English as the majority language, controversies concerning language use in society, languages other than English used in the US, and the policies that have directly or indirectly influenced language use. These topics are presented in such a way that students can examine the inherent diversity of the communicative systems used in the United States as both a form of cultural enrichment and as the basis for socio-political conflict. The author team outlines the different viewpoints on contemporary issues surrounding language in the US and contextualizes these issues within linguistic facts, to help students think critically and formulate logical discussions. To provide opportunities for further examination and debate, chapters are organized around key misconceptions or questions ("I don't have an accent" or "Immigrants don't want to learn English"), bringing them to the forefront for readers to address directly. Language and Linguistic Diversity in the US is a fresh and unique take on a widely taught topic. It is ideal for students from a variety of disciplines or with no prior knowledge of the field, and a useful text for introductory courses on language in the US, American English, language variation, language ideology, and sociolinguistics.
Download or read book Memories of Carolinian Immigrants written by Andreas Lixl and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2009-05-16 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about identity and remembrance. This anthology presents personal narratives and historical photographs that illuminate the diversity of immigrant experiences in North and South Carolina since 1700. The broad focus of the book encompasses all walks of life and documents three centuries of social, political, artistic, and cultural history. The chapters follow historical timelines starting with colonial experiences leading up to the American Revolution, followed by immigrant accounts before and during the Civil War, experiences in the New South, and memories of twentieth century immigrants and the most recent arrivals. The common denominators of the autobiographies, diaries, and letters hinge on the confluence of American patriotism and immigrant pride, coupled with old world loyalties and new world ambitions that reflect the demographic shift from European to Asian and Hispanic immigrants in the American Southeast.
Download or read book Ethnic Chronology Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1977 with total page 1482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book To See the Wizard written by Laurie Ousley and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-19 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To See the Wizard: Politics and the Literature of Childhood takes its central premise, as the title indicates, from L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Upon their return to The Emerald City after killing the Wicked Witch of the West, the task the Wizard assigned them, Dorothy, the Tin Woodman, Scarecrow, and Lion learn that the wizard is a “humbug,” merely a man from Nebraska manipulating them and the citizens of both the Emerald City and of Oz from behind a screen. Yet they all continue to believe in the powers they know he does not have, still insisting he grant their wishes. The image of the man behind the screen—and the reader’s continued pursuit of the Wizard—is a powerful one that has at its core an issue central to the study of children’s literature: the relationship between the adult writer and the child reader. As Jack Zipes, Perry Nodelman, Daniel Hade, Jacqueline Rose, and many others point out, before the literature for children and young adults actually reaches these intended readers, it has been mediated by many and diverse cultural, social, political, psychological, and economic forces. These forces occasionally work purposefully in an attempt to consciously socialize or empower, training the reader into a particular identity or way of viewing the world, by one who considers him or herself an advocate for children. Obviously, these “wizards” acting in literature can be the writers themselves, but they can also be the publishers, corporations, school boards, teachers, librarians, literary critics, and parents, and these advocates can be conservative, progressive, or any gradation in between. It is the purpose of this volume to interrogate the politics and the political powers at work in literature for children and young adults. Childhood is an important site of political debate, and children often the victims or beneficiaries of adult uses of power; one would be hard-pressed to find a category of literature more contested than that written for children and adolescents. Peter Hunt writes in his introduction to Understanding Children’s Literature, that children’s books “are overtly important educationally and commercially—with consequences across the culture, from language to politics: most adults, and almost certainly the vast majority in positions of power and influence, read children’s books as children, and it is inconceivable that the ideologies permeating those books had no influence on their development.” If there were a question about the central position literature for children and young adults has in political contests, one needs to look no further than the myriad struggles surrounding censorship. Mark I. West observes, for instance, “Throughout the history of children’s literature, the people who have tried to censor children’s books, for all their ideological differences, share a rather romantic view about the power of books. They believe, or at least they profess to believe, that books are such a major influence in the formation of children’s values and attitudes that adults need to monitor every word that children read.” Because childhood and young-adulthood are the sites of political debate for issues ranging from civil rights and racism to the construction and definition of the family, indoctrinating children into or subverting national and religious ideologies, the literature of childhood bears consciously political analysis, asking how socialization works, how children and young adults learn of social, cultural and political expectations, as well as how literature can propose means of fighting those structures. To See the Wizard: Politics and the Literature of Childhood intends to offer analysis of the political content and context of literature written for and about children and young adults. The essays included in To See the Wizard analyze nineteenth and twentieth century literature from America, Britain, Australia, the Caribbean, and Sri Lanka that is for and about children and adolescents. The essays address issues of racial and national identity and representation, poverty and class mobility, gender, sexuality and power, and the uses of literature in the healing of trauma and the construction of an authentic self.
Download or read book The Ethnic Almanac written by Stephanie Bernardo Johns and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1981 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the customs, culture, and traditions various ethnic groups brought to America, drawn from books, encyclopedias, periodicals, newspapers, and private sources.
Download or read book The New Immigrant and the American Family written by Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This six-volume set focuses on Latin American, Caribbean, and Asian immigration, which accounts for nearly 80 percent of all new immigration to the United States. The volumes contain the essential scholarship of the last decade and present key contributions reflecting the major theoretical, empirical, and policy debates about the new immigration. The material addresses vital issues of race, gender, and socioeconomic status as they intersect with the contemporary immigration experience. Organized by theme, each volume stands as an independent contribution to immigration studies, with seminal journal articles and book chapters from hard-to-find sources, comprising the most important literature on the subject. The individual volumes include a brief preface presenting the major themes that emerge in the materials, and a bibliography of further recommended readings. In its coverage of the most influential scholarship on the social, economic, educational, and civil rights issues revolving around new immigration, this collection provides an invaluable resource for students and researchers in a wide range of fields, including contemporary American history, public policy, education, sociology, political science, demographics, immigration law, ESL, linguistics, and more.
Download or read book Genealogical Local History Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Post Pandemic Trends in Language Studies written by Dilşah Kalay and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-09 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research collection focuses on language study trends following the COVID-19 pandemic. The book is organized into ten chapters. Chapter I includes teaching beliefs and practices regarding pronunciation. Chapter II examines perfectionism and its relation to second language (L2) performance. Chapter III develops a self-reported instrument to determine the existence of gelotophobia in the English Language Teaching (ELT) field. Chapter IV discusses the deconstruction of human and nonhuman distinctions in the post-cyberpunk and posthumanist context. Chapter V analyzes “surely” and “certainly” as two modal adverbs expressing conviction. Chapter VI focuses on Polish and Turkish relative clauses to reject the traditional, homogeneous approach to appositive relative clause (ARC) research. Chapter VII examines teacher motivation after the COVID-19 pandemic. Chapter VIII scrutinizes the technological knowledge level of pre-service ELT teachers. Chapter IX describes the cultural orientations of minority groups and the perceived influence of the media. As the final chapter, Chapter X investigates the effect of speaking anxiety on student talking time.
Download or read book U S Reference iana 1481 1899 written by and published by Williamsburg, Va : Moebs Publishing Company. This book was released on 1989 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Franco American Folk Traditions and Popular Culture in a Former Milltown written by Brigitte Marie Lane and published by New York : Garland Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Western Society for French History written by Western Society for French History and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book La Famille Vadenay written by Betty Vadner Haas and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Baptiste Vadenay, son of Pierre Rémi Vadenay and Louise Moirie, was born in Paris. He married Marie Anne Mousseau 27 July 1723 in Québec. They had three known sons, Antoine, Joseph and Louis. Focuses on the descendants of their great-grandson, Emmanuel Vadenais (1783-1854). Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Québec, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Minnesota. Their surname has many variant spellings including Vadenais and Vadner. Includes Godet, Haas and related families.
