An Unsettled Conquest: The British Campaign Against the Peoples of Acadia

by Geoffrey Plank

Book Overview

The former French colony of Acadia--permanently renamed Nova Scotia by the British when they began an ambitious occupation of the territory in 1710--witnessed one of the bitterest struggles in the British empire. Whereas in its other North American colonies Britain assumed it could garner the sympathies of fellow Europeans against the native peoples, in Nova Scotia nothing was further from the truth. The Mi'kmaq, the native local population, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812218698
• ISBN13: 9780812218695
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.2"