Full name: A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland

Author: John Mack Faragher Year: 2005 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780393328271 0393328279

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. 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 Mikmaq 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. Similar books: My Country by Pierre Berton Civilization by Roger Osborne Catastrophe by David Keys A Brief History of the Western World by Thomas H. Greer A Short History of Canada by Desmond Morton The Evolution of Civilizations by Carroll Quigley 1492 by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Marvelous Possessions by Stephen Greenblatt Civilization on Trial by Arnold J. Toynbee The Greatest Stories Never Told by Rick Beyer Company of Adventurers by Peter C. Newman Dead Wake by Erik Larson One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson Six Frigates by Ian W. Toll 102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer The History of Jihad by Robert Spencer Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink The Oregon Trail by Rinker Buck The History of Surfing by Matt Warshaw Washington's Immortals by Patrick K. O'Donnell