{"product_id":"9780393328271","title":"Great and Noble Scheme","description":"\u003cb\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.\" —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\r\n\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","brand":"John Mack Faragher","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":42403902062752,"sku":"9780393328271","price":9.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/BNCImageAPI_d88370cb-a024-4514-ae5e-7788af44a2fe.jpg?v=1732070928","url":"https:\/\/rivendell-books.com\/products\/9780393328271","provider":"Rivendell Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}