{"product_id":"great-and-noble-scheme-the-tragic-story-of-the-expulsion-of-the-french-acadians-from-their-american-homeland","title":"Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eGreat and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJohn Mack Faragher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780393328271\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eW. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2006\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\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 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland | John Mack Faragher | Paperback | 9780393328271 | New | American History 1623171","offer_id":50694674612482,"sku":"1623171","price":40.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/71TkV1k2ytL.jpg?v=1791558608","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/great-and-noble-scheme-the-tragic-story-of-the-expulsion-of-the-french-acadians-from-their-american-homeland","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}