Altogether superb; a worthy memorial to the victims of two and a half centuries past. --Kirkus Reviews, starred review
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. 40 illustrations, 6 mapsA Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland
John Mack Faragher
$30.99 - $38.74
- UPC:
- 9780393328271
- Maximum Purchase:
- 2 units
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 2006-02-17
- Author:
- John Mack Faragher
- Language:
- english
- Edition:
- Reprint