{"product_id":"9780393328271","title":"A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Altogether superb; a worthy memorial to the victims of two and a half centuries past.\"—Kirkus Reviews, starred review\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Norton, W. W. \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47020944294128,"sku":"9780393328271","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780393328271_p0.jpg?v=1763697210","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780393328271","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}