A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland (ePub)
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"Altogether superb: an accessible, fluent account that advances scholarship while building 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.
- Autor: John Mack Faragher
- 2013, 592 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
- ISBN-10: 0393242439
- ISBN-13: 9780393242430
- Erscheinungsdatum: 05.08.2013
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