A Great and Noble Scheme : : the Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians From Their American Homeland
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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 : British buildup, 1748-1753 -- Driven away 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.
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PUBLISHED
New York : W.W Norton & Co., c2005.
Year Published: 2005
Description: 562 p.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0393051358 :
SUBJECTS
Acadians -- History.
Acadians -- History.
Nova Scotia -- History -- To 1763.
Nova Scotia -- History -- 18th century.
Great Britain -- History -- America -- 17th century.
France -- History -- America -- 17th century.
Great Britain -- History -- America -- 18th century.
France -- History -- America -- 18th century.
North America -- Historiography.
North America -- Ethnic relations.