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Record Nr.

UNINA9910966518603321

Autore

Hodson Christopher

Titolo

The Acadian diaspora : an eighteenth-century history / / Christopher Hodson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2012

ISBN

0-19-991081-2

1-280-59587-6

9786613625700

0-19-987646-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

Oxford studies in international history

Disciplina

971.5/017

Soggetti

Acadians - Migrations - History - 18th century

Acadians - Relocation - History - 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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