A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland.(Book review)

The Historian | June 22, 2007| | Copyright

A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland. By John Mack Faragher. (New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, 2005. Pp. xi, 562. $17.95.)

This book, which is an excellent new narrative of the Acadian people, is a must-read for anyone interested in early American or Canadian history. The title is somewhat misleading because of its emphasis on the Grand Derangement (Great Disturbance), the brutal deportation of the Acadians by British authorities and New England colonists between 1755 and 1763. In actuality the ...

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