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A Great and Noble Scheme

John Mack Faragher

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  • 592 sidor
  • 2010
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.
  • Författare: John Mack Faragher
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780393328271
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 592
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2010-09-28
  • Förlag: WW Norton & Co