{"product_id":"2940170813810","title":"A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland","description":"\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.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eBut the Acadians' refusal to swear unconditional allegiance to the British Crown in the mid-18th 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.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eJohn 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","brand":"Tantor Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47105189478640,"sku":"2940170813810","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170813810_p0.jpg?v=1763718504","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170813810","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}