John Faragher

Publications

A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland
John Faragher (Times Mirror Distinguished Fellow, 1999-00)

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. 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.