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Author Hodson, Christopher

Title The Acadian diaspora : an eighteenth-century history / Christopher Hodson
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 260 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Oxford studies in international history
Oxford studies in international history.
Contents Introduction : the worlds of the Acadian diaspora -- The expulsion -- The pariahs -- The tropics -- The unknown -- The homeland -- The conspiracy -- Conclusion : the ends of the Acadian diaspora
Summary Late in 1755, an army of British regulars and Massachusetts volunteers completed one of the cruelest, most successful military campaigns in North American history, capturing and deporting seven thousand French-speaking Catholic Acadians from the province of Nova Scotia, and chasing an equal number into the wilderness of eastern Canada. Thousands of Acadians endured three decades of forced migrations and failed settlements that shuttled them to the coasts of South America, the plantations of the Caribbean, the frigid islands of the South Atlantic, the swamps of Louisiana, and the countryside of
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Acadians -- Migrations -- History -- 18th century
Acadians -- Relocation -- History -- 18th century
HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
Acadians -- Migrations
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011038848
ISBN 9780199876464
0199876460
0199739773
9780199739776
1280595876
9781280595875
9786613625700
6613625701