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New England'S Outpost Acadia Before the Conquest of Canada /

Brebner, John Bartlet

New England'S Outpost Acadia Before the Conquest of Canada / John Bartlet Brebner. - 1 online resource - Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law ; 293 .

Frontmatter -- Introduction -- Contents -- Table of Abbreviations -- Errata -- Chapter I. Noble Proprietors and Merchants Adventurers (1640-1670) -- Chapter II. Acadians, Real and Unreal (1670-1710) -- Chapter III. A Phantom Rule and "Neutral" Subjects (1710-1723) -- Chapter IV. Counterfeit Suzerainty (1724-1739) -- Chapter V. The Puritan Crusade and the Birth of a Policy (1740-1748) -- Chapter VI. Government by Analogy and Rule of Thumb (1710-1749) -- Chapter VII. Caught Between the Duellists (1749-1755) -- Chapter VIII. The Great Disruption (1755-1756) -- Chapter IX. "The Rights of Englishmen" (1749-1758) -- Chapter X. Epilogue: The Legacies to Quebec (1759-1774) -- Bibliographical Notes -- Index

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Tells of the character of the Acadian people and of the issue in their country in the 17th century and explains the implication of New England in the affairs of the province and also describes the early haphazard, and later purposeful British administration of Acadia.


Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9780231921282 9780231887168

10.7312/breb92128 doi


HISTORY / Canada / Pre-Confederation (to 1867).

F1038 / B73