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A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland
John Mack Faragher
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Description for A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland
Paperback. "Altogether superb; a worthy memorial to the victims of two and a half centuries past."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review Num Pages: 592 pages, 40 illustrations, 6 maps. BIC Classification: HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 142 x 40. Weight in Grams: 540.
In 1755, New England troops embarked on a "great and noble scheme" to expel 18,000 French-speaking Acadians ("the neutral French") from Nova Scotia, killing thousands, separating innumerable families, and driving many into forests where they waged a desperate guerrilla resistance. The right of neutrality; to live in peace from the imperial wars waged between France and England; had been one of the founding values of Acadia; its settlers traded and intermarried freely with native Mikmaq Indians and English Protestants alike. But the Acadians' refusal to swear unconditional allegiance to the British Crown in the mid-eighteenth century gave New Englanders, who ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
592
Condition
New
Number of Pages
592
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393328271
SKU
V9780393328271
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About John Mack Faragher
John Mack Faragher is the Howard R. Lamar Professor Emeritus of History and American Studies at Yale. He is the author of many books on American history, including a biography of Daniel Boone that received a Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
Reviews for A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland
"Painstakingly researched, at once poignant and hard-hitting, this tragic history of mass expulsion and dispersion of a people from their homeland demands the attention of every American citizen."
Skye K. Moody - Seattle Times "Faragher’s meticulous scholarship recovers the history of a people deliberately targeted for extinction in the British-American conquest of North America. He gives us in vivid ... Read more
Skye K. Moody - Seattle Times "Faragher’s meticulous scholarship recovers the history of a people deliberately targeted for extinction in the British-American conquest of North America. He gives us in vivid ... Read more