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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Faragher, John Mack, 1945-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : W.W Norton & Company, [2005]
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Acadians > Migrations > History. Acadians > Relocation > History. Nova Scotia > History > To 1763. Nova Scotia > Emigration and immigration > History > 18th century. Great Britain > Colonies > America > History > 17th century. France > Colonies > America > History > 17th century. Great Britain > Colonies > America > History > 18th century. France > Colonies > America > History > 18th century. North America > Historiography. North America > Ethnic relations.

Table of 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.