A Great and Noble Scheme by John Mack Faragher

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. 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. A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland By John Mack Faragher Leslie Choquette First published: PDF Tools Share Get access to the full version of this article. 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.

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. 'Altogether 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) Microhistories - Get down in the weeds with these intriguing titles!.Legacy Washington Audio Collection - Listen NOW!.Modern Scholar Audiobooks - NO WAITING!.Escape into History: Historical fiction.SciFi Old & New, Contemporary & Classic.Books to Battle Quarantine Sleep Problems.Schomburg Center Black Liberation Reading List.Celebrate National Native American Heritage.

Black Lives Matter - Books for Young People.Most recently, he published California: An American History (2022). Hine Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles (2016. Coleman A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from their American Homeland (2005) Frontiers: A Short History of the American West (2007), with Robert V. His books include Women and Men on the Overland Trail (1979) Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie (1986) Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer (1992) The American West: A New Interpretive History (2000), with Robert V. Lamar Professor Emeritus of History and American Studies. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders. After fifteen years as a professor at Mount Holyoke College he joined the Yale faculty in 1993, teaching the history of the American West and directing the Howard R. John Mack Faragher was born in Phoenix, Arizona and raised in southern California, where he attended the University of California, Riverside (B.A., 1967), then spent several years a social worker for Los Angeles County before doing graduate work at Yale University (Ph.D., 1977).

A Great and Noble Scheme by John Mack Faragher