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title: "A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland"
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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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## Customer Reviews

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    Great and Noble surely is used ironically in this title
  

*by M***. on Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2014*

I bought this book after family members traveled to the region where the Acadians lived originally.  The plight of these unfortunate people is known to most of us through Longfellow's Evangeline story.  Otherwise we might see a paragraph in a history book but little else.  The British did not just suddenly swoop down on the hapless Acadians and scatter their victims to the winds.  This author first brings out the history of the various people who inhabited the region - the Native tribes, the French settlers and the British.  Basically the Acadians were caught in the middle of a big struggle for power.  They just wanted to be left alone.  This geographical area was traded back and forth as the British and the French battled each other all over the globe.  Surprisingly, at one point even the French wanted these people removed and I had never heard that.  The French were suspicious of the Acadians for being too friendly with the English, who were suspicious of them for being too friendly with the Natives and the French.  Religion was used as a pretext by both Powers to badger the Acadians, who used ambiguity and scheming just to survive.  The British in particular were adamant that the Acadians swear allegiance to their king but the French made the same demands.  This would include the "duty" of taking up arms against the enemies of whoever was in charge at the moment AND if the Acadians had done that they would have been attacked by the Natives, who also just wanted to be left alone.  From the beginning these folks were doomed.  Still, it is fascinating to read how they cleverly kept the outsiders at arm's length until the last moment before they were finally dispersed.  Another point of interest is that the smarter and more fortunate of the Acadians could read the proverbial writing on the wall and left before the British could drag them away from their homes.  This is a history of being caught in the middle, injustice, religious bigotry, betrayal and diabolical calculation for selfish reasons.  It well demonstrates that some things remain the same.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Excellent condition
  

*by P***R on Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2022*

Bought this as part of  suggested reading list for a trip to Nova Scotia Canada.  This "used book" was like new.  Only very minor wear on a small section of the book jacket. The binding is  perfect and the pages have no marks or sign of previous use.  I'm glad I purchased this as it probably will not become part of my permanent library.  Therefore, I didn't want to pay $40 for a new book. I am very satisfied with the vendor.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Scholarly, Yet Reads Like Swashbuckling Novel
  

*by S***D on Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2007*

John Mack Faragher examines the colonization of Nova Scotia by French peasants in the seventeenth century and how their occupation of this strategically important peninsula eventually resulted in their forced expulsion by the British military -- an event that Faragher regards as an instance of "ethnic cleansing," if not outright genocide.Faragher delves deep into colonial archives to locate obscure source material that brings to life a people who were at best semi-literate.  He does so by drawing on government correspondence (between colonial administrators and government officials in London and Paris), on the personal diaries of British soldiers, on the memoirs of French missionaries, and on letters written by the few literate Acadians, among other sources.More than previous writers, Faragher stresses the intimate relationship between the Acadians and the local Micmac Indians, with whom the Acadians intermarried much more frequently than thought originally.He also emphasizes the leading role played by New England "Yankees" in carrying out the expulsion, showing that the event was hardly a purely British operation.He traces the Acadians' repeated efforts to secure their New World homeland by swearing an conditional oath of allegiance to the British crown -- allegiance in exchange for wartime neutrality.  To do otherwise, Faragher repeatedly notes, would have been for the Acadians to invite attack from the French military and their Indian allies . . . as did indeed happen at the village of Beaubassin, when Indians under French command burned the village in an event that mirrors the "burn-the-village-to-save-it" mentality of the Vietnam War (my comparison, not Faragher's).The book is heavily documented, complete with detailed endnotes and bibliography; and despite the academic trappings it reads like a swashbuckling novel.As a professional historian, I highly recommend this book to scholars and laypersons alike.

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