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Author:

Faragher, John Mack, 1945-

Title:

A great and noble scheme : the tragic story of the expulsion of the French Acadians from their American Homeland / John Mack Faragher.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

W.W Norton & Co.,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

xx, 562 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Acadians--History.--History.
Acadians--History.--History.
Acadiens, Déportation des, 1755.
Acadians--Expulsion, 1755.
Nova Scotia--History--To 1763.
Nova Scotia--History--History--18th century.
Great Britain--History--America--History--17th century.
France--History--America--History--17th century.
Great Britain--History--America--History--18th century.
France--History--America--History--18th century.
North America--Historiography.
North America--Ethnic relations.
Nova Scotia--History--To 1784.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 481-538) and index.

Contents:

L'ordre de bon-temps : the French arrival in l'Acadie, 1604-1616 -- Seigneurs et roturiers : the birth of the Acadian people, 1614-1688 -- Cunning is better than force : life in the borderland, 1671-1696 -- Nos amis les ennemis : the English conquest, 1696-1710 -- The meadows of l'Acadie : imperial designs and Acadian desires, 1710-1718 -- "To gett them over by degrees" : controversy over the oath, 1718-1730 -- The French neutrals : years of Acadian prosperity, 1730-1739 -- Plac'd between two fires : Paul Mascarene and Imperial War, 1739-1747 -- Discord and desolation : the British buildup, 1748-1753 -- By fire and sword : the siege of Beauséjour, December 1753-July 1755 -- Driven out of the country : the decision to remove the Acadians, June-July 1755 -- Gone, all gone: the expulsion, August-December 1755 -- Removed to a strange land : the exiles, 1755-1758 -- Chasse à mort! : the refugees, 1756-1760 -- The rays of the morning : end of the removal era, 1760-1785 -- Le grand dérangement : memory and history.

ISBN:

9780393328271 (pbk.)
0393328279 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)68936534

Locations:

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)