{"product_id":"b00dziebwm","title":"A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland","description":"\u003cp\u003eAltogether 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)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e40 illustrations, 6 maps\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":67937921957924,"sku":"YSL40318","price":8.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0805\/2614\/7620\/files\/71TkV1k2ytL._SY1500.jpg?v=1793278626","url":"https:\/\/booktavero.com\/products\/b00dziebwm","provider":"BookTavero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}