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

By: Faragher, John Mack, 1945-Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : W.W Norton & Co., c2005Description: xx, 562 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN: 0393328279 (soft cover); 0393328279 (pbk.)Subject(s): 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 relationsLOC classification: F1038 | .F37 2005Online resources: Table of contents
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 Beausǰour, 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 ̉mort! : the refugees, 1756-1760 -- The rays of the morning : end of the removal era, 1760-1785 -- Le grand dřangement : memory and history.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 481-538) and index.

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 Beausǰour, 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 ̉mort! : the refugees, 1756-1760 -- The rays of the morning : end of the removal era, 1760-1785 -- Le grand dřangement : memory and history.

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