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Titre :
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A great and noble scheme : the tragic story of the expulsion of the French Acadians from their American homeland
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Auteurs :
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Johen Mack Faragher
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Type de document :
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texte imprimé
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Editeur :
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W.W. Norton, 2005
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ISBN/ISSN/EAN :
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978-0-393-05135-3
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Format :
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562 p.
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Langues:
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Anglais
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Index. décimale :
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973 (Histoire - Etats-Unis)
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Catégories :
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17e siècle / 17th century
18e siècle / 18th century
Canada
Etats-Unis / United States
Immigration
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Résumé :
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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 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.
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Nature (forme/thème) :
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Histoire
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