The Acadian diaspora, an eighteenth-century history, Christopher Hodson
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The Acadian diaspora, an eighteenth-century history, Christopher Hodson
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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illustrations
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index present
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non fiction
Main title
The Acadian diaspora
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bibliography
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754518576
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Christopher Hodson
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Oxford studies in international history
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an eighteenth-century history
Summary
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. -- Jacket
Table of 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
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