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2015

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Une Amérique Française, 1760-1860: Dynamiques Du Corridor Créole, Guillaume Teasdale, Tangi Villerbu Nov 2015

Une Amérique Française, 1760-1860: Dynamiques Du Corridor Créole, Guillaume Teasdale, Tangi Villerbu

Guillaume Teasdale

De la Louisiane à Détroit, en passant par Sainte-Geneviève, Saint-Louis ou Vincennes, ce sont tous les pôles de développement de cette Amérique française qui sont analysés, du temps des révolutions atlantiques à la veille de la Guerre de Sécession quand les Etats-Unis cherchent encore la meilleure définition d'eux-mêmes et que les francophones doivent trouver leur place dans les évolutions de la jeune République. En croisant l'histoire culturelle et celles des relations internationales, les approches genrées et l'histoire des missionaires, l'histoire des réseaux migratoires et celle du patrimoine, la question de la langue et celle du métissage, les auteurs espèrent donner …

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Bridging The Distances: Women Writers Exploring The Nightmare Of Vietnam, Christina Triezenberg Jul 2015

Bridging The Distances: Women Writers Exploring The Nightmare Of Vietnam, Christina Triezenberg

Christina Triezenberg

This essay seeks to challenge the now-common practice of excluding Vietnam-era antiwar verse from contemporary literary anthologies by exploring the works produced by professional and amateur female poets who, in many cases, had witnessed the war firsthand and reflected on their experiences in verse that depicts the often harsh realities of this still-contested conflict. By exploring poetry written by women who served in a variety of capacities during the war, this essay underscores the repeated attempts made by women writers to bridge the distances between the home front and the battlefront and offers a compelling argument about the importance of …

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Illinois And The American Revolution, Claiborne Skinner Feb 2015

Illinois And The American Revolution, Claiborne Skinner

Claiborne A. Skinner Jr.

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Postindustrial Societies, Brian Hoey Dec 2014

Postindustrial Societies, Brian Hoey

Brian A. Hoey, Ph.D.

The term postindustrial society presupposes categorizing society based on an economic means of classification. Its use rests on assessing the relative status of manufacturing industry as an economic sector. Significant adjustment in sectoral location and nature of employment precipitated by late-twentieth-century deindustrialization in the developed world led many social theorists and critics to predict broad changes throughout domains of everyday life. Some began to speak not only of sectoral transformation but also of an emergent ‘ postindustrial society. ’ Following earlier agrarian and industrial ‘ revolutions, ’ postindustrialism suggested yet another revolution that would again transform how societies were organized.

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