02734nam 2200649 a 450 991096651860332120240516163309.00-19-991081-21-280-59587-697866136257000-19-987646-0(CKB)2550000000099686(EBL)916042(OCoLC)797859272(SSID)ssj0000631602(PQKBManifestationID)12293240(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000631602(PQKBWorkID)10599720(PQKB)11305600(Au-PeEL)EBL916042(CaPaEBR)ebr10560987(CaONFJC)MIL362570(OCoLC)754518576(FINmELB)ELB162162(MiAaPQ)EBC916042(EXLCZ)99255000000009968620110923d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Acadian diaspora an eighteenth-century history /Christopher Hodson1st ed.Oxford ;New York Oxford University Press20121 online resource (273 p.)Oxford studies in international historyDescription based upon print version of record.0-19-061073-5 0-19-973977-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 ofOxford studies in international history.AcadiansMigrationsHistory18th centuryAcadiansRelocationHistory18th centuryAcadiansMigrationsHistoryAcadiansRelocationHistory971.5/017Hodson Christopher1851643MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910966518603321The Acadian diaspora4445803UNINA