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John Mack FaragherPublication Details
Book1st edW.W Norton & Co2005Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) F1038 .F37 2005 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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“Delves deeply and with rueful wisdom into a terrible crime perpetrated by European imperialists and American colonists.”—Thomas Fleming On August 25, 1755, the New York 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 our secret Enemies….If we Effect their Expulsion, it will be one of the greatest things that ever the English did in America…” (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- Acadians — Migrations — History
- Acadians — Relocation — History
- Acadians — Expulsion, 1755
- Acadiens, Déportation des, 1755
- 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
- Nova Scotia — History — To 1784
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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
- 0393051358
- 9780393051353
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