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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Faragher, John Mack, 1945- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Acadians--Migrations--History.

Acadians.

Acadians--Relocation--History.

Nova Scotia--History--To 1763.

Nova Scotia.

Nova Scotia--Emigration and immigration--History--18th century.

Great Britain--Colonies--America--History--17th century.

Great Britain.

France--Colonies--America--History--17th century.

France.

Great Britain--Colonies--America--History--18th century.

France--Colonies--America--History--18th century.

North America--Historiography.

North America.

North America--Ethnic relations.

Acadians--Nova Scotia--History--Expulsion, 1755.

Acadians--Migrations.

British colonies.

Emigration and immigration.

Ethnic relations.

French colonies.

Historiography.

America.

Great Britain--Colonies--America.

France--Colonies--America.

North America--Ethnic relations--History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xx, 562 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W Norton & Company, [2005]

Summary:

"On September 4, 1755, The Pennsylvania Gazette printed a dispatch from the maritime province of Nova Scotia: "We are now upon a great and noble Scheme of sending the neutral French out of this Province, who have always been secret Enemies, and have encouraged our Savages to cut our Throats. If we effect their Expulsion, it will be one of the greatest Things that ever the English did in America; for by all Accounts, that Part of the Country they possess, is as good Land as any in the World: In case therefore we could get some good English Farmers in their Room, this Province would abound with all Kinds of Provisions."" "At the time these words were published, New England troops acting under the authority of the colonial governors of Nova Scotia and Massachusetts were systematically rounding up more than seven thousand Acadians, the French-speaking, Catholic inhabitants who lived in communities along the shores of the Bay of Fundy. Men, women, and children alike were crowded into transport vessels and deported in small groups to other British colonies across the continent of North America." "Piecing together the scattered remnants of Acadian civilization in documents and sources buried deep in archives, historian John Mack Faragher provides the first comprehensive, thoroughly researched, and historically accurate account of the expulsion from both British and Acadian points of view."--Jacket.

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.

Notes:

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

British Library not licensed to copy 0.

Local Notes:

The Balch Institute Library and Archives.

ISBN:

0393051358

9780393051353

0393328279

9780393328271

OCLC:

55730272

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