Title: A well-researched account of another ethnic cleansing
Product review: In this detailed history, Plank describes the British campaign to convert or deport French-speaking Catholics living in Acadia, roughly equivalent to today's Nova Scotia. The deportation was the culmination of a seventy-year effort to transform Acadia into a Protestant, English-speaking area loyal to the British crown. Plank uncovered an impressive array of sources, giving immediacy to some of this history. The Mi'Kmaq Indians, often allied with the Acadians, emerge as a significant third party in this long struggle, in which periods of relative peace and cooperation alternated with military conflict and dictatorial methods. My only criticism is that Plank has a tendency to repeat points in other words. A few pages describing today's Acadian cultural survivals in Canada and Louisiana would have been helpful.
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