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A great and noble sc...
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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.
New York : W.W Norton & Co., c2005.
ISBN:
0393051358
(hardcover)
Description:
xx, 562 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.
Edition:
1st ed.
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.
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Central Library
Adult Nonfiction
971.601 F219g
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Apr 20, 2024
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971.601 F219g
Local History Room - Central Library, 4th Floor
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