French America

by Dean R. Louder

This collection of essays represents the most comprehensive study to date of the concentrated populations of French origin that dot the North American continent from Quebec to Louisiana, from Newfoundland to British Columbia. The authors - geographers, anthropologists, historians, and sociologists - view the populations, which are today French-speaking to varying degrees, as part of a widely scattered and very diverse cultural community united by its historic language and its origins. Their essays, appearing together in the United States for the first time in this revised and updated...

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