Great and Noble Scheme
The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians From
WW Norton · Print & ebook · January 31, 2006
"Altogether superb: an accessible, fluent account that advances scholarship while building 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.
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- Who it’s for
- A fluent history of Acadia’s ideals of neutrality and the campaign that shattered them.
- Themes
- Acadian expulsion, Colonial ethnic cleansing, Acadian neutrality and culture
- Genres
- Pre-Confederation Canada, Colonial America (to 1775), 18th-Century History
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"Altogether superb: an accessible, fluent account that advances scholarship while building 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.
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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 Mìkmaq 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.
Neutrality Under Siege
A fluent history of Acadia’s ideals of neutrality and the campaign that shattered them.
Come here for
- The collision of imperial ambition and a community’s wish to live in peace
- Acadian history alongside the human cost of forced expulsion
Expect
- A sustained narrative spanning 150 years of history
- An accessible account of a devastating chapter in colonial history
Where it sits
| Pre-Confederation Canada | 78% |
|---|---|
| Colonial America (to 1775) | 70% |
| 18th-Century History | 22% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Pre-Confederation Canada
- Authors
- John Mack Faragher
- Publisher
- WW Norton
- Published
- January 31, 2006
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Acadian expulsion · Colonial ethnic cleansing · Acadian neutrality and culture
- Reading lane
- Pre-Confederation Canada