Gaelic Cape Breton Step-Dancing

John G Gibson

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History | nr. 2
• The step-dancing of the Scotch Gaels in Nova Scotia is the last living example of a form of dance that waned following the great emigrations to Canada... Lees meer

Ireland, Sweden, and the Great European Migration, 1815-1914

Don Akenson, Donald Harman Akenson

• Paperback | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History
• This book is the product of Donald Akenson's decades of research and writing on Irish social history and its relationship to the Irish diaspora - it i... Lees meer

North American Gaels

• Paperback | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History
• 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 t... Lees meer

A Land of Dreams

Patrick Mannion

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History | nr. 46
• Wherever they settled, immigrants from Ireland and their descendants shaped and reshaped their understanding of being Irish in response to circumstanc... Lees meer

The People of Glengarry

Marianne McLean

• Paperback | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History | nr. 9
• Using a wide array of published and unpublished sources, McLean examines in detail nine group emigrations that left western Inverness between 1785 and... Lees meer

Peronism as a Big Tent

Raanan Rein, Ariel Noyjovich

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History
• Argentina's populist movement, led by Juan Perón, welcomed people from a broad range of cultural backgrounds to join its ranks. Unlike most populist m... Lees meer

The Least Possible Fuss and Publicity

Paul A Evans

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History
• Over the two decades following the Second World War, the policy that would create "a nation of immigrants," as Canadian multiculturalism is now widely... Lees meer

Being Arab

Paul Eid

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History
• Arabs in North America are often perceived to be a monolithic group. 'Being Arab' explores how Muslim and Christian Arab-Canadian youth actually negot... Lees meer

Irish Migrants in the Canadas

Bruce S Elliott

• Paperback | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History | nr. 101
• Including a new preface by the author, Irish Migrants in the Canadas probes beyond the aggregate statistics of most studies of the migration process. ... Lees meer

Running on Empty

Michael Molloy, Kurt Jensen, Peter Duschinsky, Robert Shalka, Michael J Molloy, Kurt F Jensen, Robert J Shalka

• Paperback | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History | nr. 2
• The fall of Saigon in April 1975 resulted in the largest and most ambitious refugee resettlement effort in Canada's history. Running on Empty presents... Lees meer

Being Arab

Paul Eid

• Paperback | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History
• Arabs in North America are often perceived to be a monolithic group. 'Being Arab' explores how Muslim and Christian Arab-Canadian youth actually negot... Lees meer

Canada and the Ukrainian Question, 1939-1945

Bohdan S Kordan

• Paperback | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History | nr. 36
• Focusing on the difficulties the government faced in trying to reconcile moral imperatives and political interest, Kordan provides an innovative inter... Lees meer

From Peasants to Labourers

Vadim Kukushkin

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History | nr. 23
• This illuminating study of transnational population mobility offers a new interpretation of early twentieth-century Canadian immigration from tsarist ... Lees meer

Building Nations from Diversity

Garth Stevenson

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History | nr. 2
• Building Nations from Diversity explores the question of whether the Canadian mosaic has differed from the American melting pot and provides an inform... Lees meer

Growing Up Canadian

Peter Beyer, Rubina Ramji

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History
• A significant number of Canadian-raised children from post-1970s immigrant families have reached adulthood over the past decade. As a result, the demo... Lees meer

Strategic Friends

Bohdan S Kordan

• Paperback | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History | nr. 2
• Since the end of the Soviet Union, Canada has played a leading role in the international response to Ukraine and to the challenges associated with its... Lees meer

Vancouver's Chinatown, Volume 110

Kay J Anderson

• Paperback | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History | nr. 110
• Anderson charts the construction of Chinatown in the minds and streets of the white community of Vancouver over a hundred year period. She shows that ... Lees meer

Between Dispersion and Belonging, 2

• Paperback | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History | nr. 2
• As a historical and religious term diaspora has existed for many years, but it only became an academic and analytical concept in the 1980s and '90s. W... Lees meer

Exiles and Islanders

Brendan O'Grady

• Paperback | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History
• Exiles and Islanders describes Irish settlement in Prince Edward Island from 1763 to 1880. By tracing the history of these early settlers, Brendan O'G... Lees meer

Irish Nationalism in Canada

David A Wilson

• Paperback | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History | nr. 2
• According to conventional historical wisdom, Irish nationalism in Canada was a marginal phenomenon - overshadowed by the more powerful movement in the... Lees meer

Witness to Loss

• Hardcover | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History | nr. 2
• When the federal government uprooted and interned Japanese Canadians en masse in 1942, Kishizo Kimura saw his life upended along with tens of thousand... Lees meer

Witness to Loss

• Paperback | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History | nr. 2
• When the federal government uprooted and interned Japanese Canadians en masse in 1942, Kishizo Kimura saw his life upended along with tens of thousand... Lees meer

The Invisible Community

• Paperback | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History
• The South Asian population in Canada, encompassing diverse national, ethnic, and religious backgrounds, has in recent years become the largest visible... Lees meer

New England and the Maritime Provinces

Stephen J Hornsby, John G Reid

• Paperback | Engels | McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History
• New England and Canada's Maritime provinces share centuries-old connections. This work examines this important relationship through analysis of themes... Lees meer