The Grand Dérangement in the Context of the Eighteenth – Century British Empire
Author:
Derek A Jones
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Major:
History
Graduation Year:
2011
Thesis Advisor:
Jacques Ferland
Description of Publication:
Since the 1960's there has been a fierce debate on the criminality of the deportation of the Acadian people from the Maritimes. Since then, many historians have compared the deportation of the Acadians, also known as the Grand Dérangement, to modern acts of 'ethnic cleansing'. However, these comparisons take the Grand Dérangement out of context. This thesis compares the Grand Dérangement to the transportation of Scottish and Irish rebels after the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745 and United Irish Rebellion of 1798 in an effort to establish that the Grand Dérangement was extraordinary in the context of the 18th-century British Empire.
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URL to Thesis:
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/honors/474/