A Great and Noble Scheme - The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland (Paperback)

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 had long coveted Nova Scotia's fertile farmland, pretense enough to launch a campaign of ethnic cleansing on a massive scale. John Mack Faragher draws on original research to weave 150 years of history into a gripping narrative of both the civilization of Acadia and the British plot to destroy it."

General

Imprint:	W W Norton & Co Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2010
First published:	February 2006
Authors:	John Mack Faragher
Dimensions:	211 x 142 x 41mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	592
ISBN-13:	978-0-393-32827-1
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General
LSN:	0-393-32827-9
Barcode:	9780393328271

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