The Acadian diaspora [[electronic resource] ] : an eighteenth-century history / / Christopher Hodson

• Autore: Hodson Christopher
• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (273 p.)
• Disciplina: 971.5/017
• Soggetto topico: Acadians - Migrations - History - 18th century; Acadians - Relocation - History - 18th century
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The Acadian diaspora
• ISBN: 1-280-59587-6; 9786613625700; 0-19-987646-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910452135503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford studies in international history.