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EBOOK Acadian Diaspora:An Eighteenth-Century History
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199910816
EAN: 9D139795EB
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Stron: 272
Data wydania: 2012
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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 central France.The Acadian Diaspora tells their extraordinary        story in full for the first time, illuminating a long-forgotten world of imperial        desperation, experimental colonies, and naked brutality. Using documents culled from        archives in France, Great Britain, Canada, and the United States, Christopher Hodson        reconstructs the lives of Acadian exiles as they traversed oceans and continents,        pushed along by empires eager to populate new frontiers with inexpensive, pliable        white farmers. Hodson's compelling narrative situates the Acadian diaspora within        the dramatic geopolitical changes triggered by the Seven Years' War. Faced with        redrawn boundaries and staggering national debts, imperial architects across Europe        used the Acadians to realize radical plans: tropical settlements without slaves,        expeditions to the unknown southern continent, and, perhaps strangest of all,        agricultural colonies within old regime France itself. In response, Acadians        embraced their status as human commodities, using intimidation and even violence to        tailor their communities to the superheated Atlantic market for cheap, mobile        labor.Through vivid, intimate stories of Acadian exiles and the diverse,        transnational cast of characters that surrounded them, The Acadian Diaspora presents        the eighteenth-century Atlantic world from a new angle, challenging old assumptions        about uprooted peoples and the very nature of early modern empire.

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