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Author: Michael S. Martin Publisher: University of Louisiana ISBN: 9781946160461 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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Rethinking New Acadia presents cutting edge research into and new ways of thinking about the dispersal of the Acadians and their arrival in southwestern Louisiana. This book is required reading for historians, genealogists, and anyone else interested in understanding Le Grande Dérangement more deeply than ever before. Book jacket.
Author: Michael S. Martin Publisher: University of Louisiana ISBN: 9781946160461 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Rethinking New Acadia presents cutting edge research into and new ways of thinking about the dispersal of the Acadians and their arrival in southwestern Louisiana. This book is required reading for historians, genealogists, and anyone else interested in understanding Le Grande Dérangement more deeply than ever before. Book jacket.
Author: Dean W. Jobb Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 0470739614 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 311
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One of the darkest events in Canadian history is replete with the drama of war, politics and untold human suffering. Starting in 1755, 10,000 people of French ancestry were expelled from their homes along Canada's east coast by a tyrannical British governor with the complicity of American sympathizers. While some Acadians returned home to try to evade capture and forge a living, others made their way to the Spanish colony of Louisiana, where they farmed and fished and began the vibrant "Cajun" culture that is renowned around the world. Award-winning author Dean Jobb has written a dramatic and compelling account of "Le grand derangement" -- the event that was immortalized in Longfellow's famous poem "Evangeline." Jobb brings a cast of characters to life so vividly that the reader is immediately captured by their stories. The richness of detail is remarkable. The quality of writing is cinematic. The year 2005 marks the 250th anniversary of the expulsion. This book is a bridge across the centuries for the descendants of a founding people of this nation, whose courage and resourcefulness still resonate in modern-day Acadie.
Author: Zachary Richard Publisher: University of Louisiana ISBN: 9781935754299 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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"Studies the evolution of the Acadian community in Louisiana and furnishes a portrait of contemporary Acadian/Cajun culture through its social traditions and artistic expression"--Amazon.com.
Author: Warren A. Perrin Publisher: Andrepont Pub ISBN: 9780976892700 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 212
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Acadian Redemption, the first biography of an Acadian exile, defines the 18th century society of Acadia into which Joseph dit Beausoleil Broussard was born in 1702. The book explains his early life events and militant struggles with the British who had, for years, wanted to lay claim to the Acadians' rich lands. The book discusses the repercussions of Beausoleil's life that resulted in the evolution of the Acadian culture into what is now called the Cajun culture. More than 50 vintage photographs, maps, and documents are included.
Author: Sally Ross Publisher: Nimbus Publishing (CN) ISBN: 9781551090122 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 228
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The first work devoted exclusively to Acadians in Nova Scotia, this book presents a thorough study of Acadian history from the earliest days of French settlement to present-day Acadian communities. Authors Sally Ross and Alphonse Deveau draw on original seventeenth-century texts, as well as up-to-date sources. They examine the history of the Expulsion--the Grand Dérangement--that began in 1755, and trace the return of the Acadians and their resettlement in seven areas of the province. The authors highlight the distinct features that have developed within these different regions of Nova Scotia and discuss the choices and challenges faced by Acadians today: the linguistic assimilation and preservation of a distinct culture against pressures from the mainstream culture. Acadians of Nova Scotia won the 1993 Dartmouth Book Award for non-fiction and the 1993 Evelyn Richardson Memorial Literary Prize for non-fiction.
Author: Jean-François Mouhot Publisher: University of Louisiana ISBN: 9781935754756 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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On May 10, 1785, the Bon Papa, a modest three-master of 280 tons, hoisted its sails at Paimboeuf, France, near Nantes, and headed west. On board were thirty-six families whom the owner of the boat had promised to bring to port. The ship, which arrived at its destination on July 29, 1785--after eighty days on the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico waters--was only the first of seven ships carrying nearly 1,600 Acadians to Spain's Louisiana colony. Thirty years, almost to the day, before the arrival of Bon Papa in New Orleans, seven or eight times as many Acadians had embarked on ships from Nova Scotia, Canada. Between July 28 and July 31, 1755, the English governor of the colony, Charles Lawrence, as a prelude to the Seven Years' War, made the decision to expel all inhabitants of French origin within his territory. Many of the exiled Acadians were deported to the American colonies, the Caribbean, Britain, or France. Nearly one-third of those deported died from disease or drownings. Those who did survive the journey often struggled to survive and assimilate in their new communities, even in their motherland of France. This book examines the Acadians while exiled in France. Based on a tremendous amount of primary source research, Mouhot tells their story in great detail, while he also challenges many previous interpretations and understandings of their experiences in their "homeland."
Author: John Mack Faragher Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393242439 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 609
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"Altogether superb: an accessible, fluent account that advances scholarship while building a worthy memorial to the victims of two and a half centuries past." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) In 1755, New England troops embarked on a "great and noble scheme" to expel 18,000 French-speaking Acadians ("the neutral French") from Nova Scotia, killing thousands, separating innumerable families, and driving many into forests where they waged a desperate guerrilla resistance. The right of neutrality; to live in peace from the imperial wars waged between France and England; had been one of the founding values of Acadia; its settlers traded and intermarried freely with native Mikmaq Indians and English Protestants alike. But the Acadians' refusal to swear unconditional allegiance to the British Crown in the mid-eighteenth century gave New Englanders, who had long coveted Nova Scotia's fertile farmland, pretense enough to launch a campaign of ethnic cleansing on a massive scale. John Mack Faragher draws on original research to weave 150 years of history into a gripping narrative of both the civilization of Acadia and the British plot to destroy it.
Author: Michael S. Martin
Author: Michael S. Martin
Author: Evangeline
Author: Carl A. Brasseaux
Author: Dean W. Jobb
Author: Zachary Richard
Author: Warren A. Perrin
Author: Sally Ross
Author: Evangeline
Author: Jean-François Mouhot
Author: John Mack Faragher