{"product_id":"a-great-and-noble-scheme-the-tragic-story-of-the-expulsion-of-the-french-acadians-from-their-american-homeland-0393328279","title":"A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0393328279\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Faragher, John Mack\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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)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. 40 illustrations, 6 maps\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51539143262496,"sku":"NEW0393328279","price":24.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/71TkV1k2ytL.jpg?v=1777486057","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/a-great-and-noble-scheme-the-tragic-story-of-the-expulsion-of-the-french-acadians-from-their-american-homeland-0393328279","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}