A Great And Noble Scheme The Tragic Story Of The Expulsion Of The French Acadians From Their American Homeland
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A Great And Noble Scheme The Tragic Story Of The Expulsion Of The French Acadians From Their American Homeland
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Author : John Mack Faragher
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2006-02-17
A Great And Noble Scheme The Tragic Story Of The Expulsion Of The French Acadians From Their American Homeland written by John Mack Faragher and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-02-17 with History categories.
"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.
A Great And Noble Scheme The Tragic Story Of The Expulsion Of The French Acadians From Their American Homeland
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Author : John Mack Faragher
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2006-01-31
A Great And Noble Scheme The Tragic Story Of The Expulsion Of The French Acadians From Their American Homeland written by John Mack Faragher and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-31 with History categories.
Documents the August 1755 forced relocation of some eighteen thousand neutral French residents from the Nova Scotia province by European imperialists and American colonists, an act that separated families and resulted in the deaths of thousands of Acadian residents. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.
A Great And Noble Scheme
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Author : John Mack Faragher
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2005
A Great And Noble Scheme written by John Mack Faragher and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
Drawing on original primary research, Faragher follows specific Acadian families through the anguish of their removal and brings to light a tragic chapter in the settlement of America.
The Acadian Diaspora
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Author : Christopher Hodson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-05-01
The Acadian Diaspora written by Christopher Hodson and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-01 with History categories.
Late in 1755, an army of British regulars and Massachusetts volunteers completed one of the cruelest, most successful military campaigns in North American history, capturing and deporting seven thousand French-speaking Catholic Acadians from the province of Nova Scotia, and chasing an equal number into the wilderness of eastern Canada. Thousands of Acadians endured three decades of forced migrations and failed settlements that shuttled them to the coasts of South America, the plantations of the Caribbean, the frigid islands of the South Atlantic, the swamps of Louisiana, and the countryside of central France. The Acadian Diaspora tells their extraordinary story in full for the first time, illuminating a long-forgotten world of imperial desperation, experimental colonies, and naked brutality. Using documents culled from archives in France, Great Britain, Canada, and the United States, Christopher Hodson reconstructs the lives of Acadian exiles as they traversed oceans and continents, pushed along by empires eager to populate new frontiers with inexpensive, pliable white farmers. Hodson's compelling narrative situates the Acadian diaspora within the dramatic geopolitical changes triggered by the Seven Years' War. Faced with redrawn boundaries and staggering national debts, imperial architects across Europe used the Acadians to realize radical plans: tropical settlements without slaves, expeditions to the unknown southern continent, and, perhaps strangest of all, agricultural colonies within old regime France itself. In response, Acadians embraced their status as human commodities, using intimidation and even violence to tailor their communities to the superheated Atlantic market for cheap, mobile labor. Through vivid, intimate stories of Acadian exiles and the diverse, transnational cast of characters that surrounded them, The Acadian Diaspora presents the eighteenth-century Atlantic world from a new angle, challenging old assumptions about uprooted peoples and the very nature of early modern empire.
Acadian Redemption
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Author : Warren A. Perrin
language : en
Publisher: Andrepont Pub
Release Date : 2005
Acadian Redemption written by Warren A. Perrin and has been published by Andrepont Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Acadian Redemption, the first biography of an Acadian exile, defines the 18th century society of Acadia into which Joseph dit Beausoleil Broussard was born in 1702. The book explains his early life events and militant struggles with the British who had, for years, wanted to lay claim to the Acadians' rich lands. The book discusses the repercussions of Beausoleil's life that resulted in the evolution of the Acadian culture into what is now called the Cajun culture. More than 50 vintage photographs, maps, and documents are included.
The Contexts Of Acadian History 1686 1784
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Author : Naomi Elizabeth Saundaus Griffiths
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 1992
The Contexts Of Acadian History 1686 1784 written by Naomi Elizabeth Saundaus Griffiths and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.
In the first study to connect the Acadian experience with the heritage of ideas the migrants brought with them from Europe, Naomi Griffiths explores the creation and endurance of the Acadian community and the ways in which the Acadians differed from the people of New England and New France. One result of the war between England and France for the domination of much of North America was the deportation of the Acadians from their homeland in 1755. Griffiths examines the implications of this deportation for the survival of the Acadian community.
Heroes Of The Acadian Resistance
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Author : Dianne Marshall
language : en
Publisher: Formac Publishing Company Limited
Release Date : 2011-10-11
Heroes Of The Acadian Resistance written by Dianne Marshall and has been published by Formac Publishing Company Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Heroes of the Acadian Resistance tells the unique story of 2 young men who became leaders of guerrilla fighters by resisting the British authorities in Nova Scotia. Fighting to prevent the destruction of Acadian homes, farms, & the forcible deportation of thousands. This book tells the tragic well-known story of the 1755 Expulsion of the Acadians.
An Historical Sketch Of The Acadians
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Author : George Potter Bible
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1906
An Historical Sketch Of The Acadians written by George Potter Bible and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1906 with Acadians categories.
Daring Pioneers Tame The Frontier
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Author : Bettye B. Burkhalter
language : en
Publisher: Author House
Release Date : 2010-03-31
Daring Pioneers Tame The Frontier written by Bettye B. Burkhalter and has been published by Author House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-31 with Family & Relationships categories.
History, Romance, & Destiny... Daring Pioneers Tame the Frontier is an exquisite saga of Dr. Jean (John) Baptiste Elzar Burels lifelong desire to cross the Atlantic Ocean to the beckoning new America. With his naval surgeon license in one hand and his medical chest in the other, he followed Marquis de Lafayette to Colonial America during the Revolutionary War. During the war he fell passionately in love and married a beautiful Acadian French woman in Philadelphia. After the war they made plans to return to his home at Ollioules, France. Homeward bound, the bourgeois doctor boarded the ship in Philadelphia with his new bride and their few belongings. There on deck he was unexpectedly forced to choose between his beloved homeland and family in France and his wife with child. Disembarking the ship with grave disappointment, John knowingly forfeited his inheritance as sole heir. Struggling to survive in Philadelphia, oftentimes John sat quietly admiring the beautiful woman who owned his heart as he secretly yearned for his prominent family and lifestyle on the Mediterranean Coast of France. Standing on the threshold of the newly independent America, the young doctor decided to take his wife and infant son and pioneer down the Great Wagon Road into the raw frontier of South Carolina. Believing he would build a new and prosperous life, he settled at Goshen Hill between the Tyger and Enoree Rivers within the lawless backcountry of South Carolina. Fighting the dangers and hardships of the frontier, and the recurring restlessness to return to France, John and his family carved out a simple life. Although disappointed at times, within the walls of his log home the enduring love and warmth of his wife and six children transcended adversity and hardships of the outside world. The heartwarming story is filled with humanity as John faced his inevitable destiny. The first novel in the trilogy closes with Dr. Burels widow standing helplessly in her front yard watching the wagon train take her spirited children and grandchildren west in search of richer land and prosperity. It was dj vu!
Acadian To Cajun
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Author : Carl A. Brasseaux
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 1992
Acadian To Cajun written by Carl A. Brasseaux and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Cajuns categories.
"This work serves as a model for compiling ethnohistories of other nonliterate peoples."--BOOK JACKET.