| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.4

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Book Review

The Far Reaches of Empire: War in Nova Scotia, 1710–1760. By John Grenier. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. xvi, 270 pp. $34.95, ISBN 978-0-8061-3876-3.)

John Grenier writes compellingly of a colonial war of subjugation, which began with the capture of Nova Scotia from the French in 1710 and ended with the wars of the 1750s and their bleak denouement in the forced exile of the Francophone Acadians to Louisiana and elsewhere. By the mid-nineteenth century, the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow lamented the cruelty of his Yankee forbears in his epic Evangeline (1847), but Grenier shows us how eagerly those same forbears had pressed the sword of war on the Acadians and their Indian allies. Those Yankees, as much as any London imperialist, were responsible for the deportations that left Nova Scotia "a model of how a prosperous, secure, and thoroughly loyal colony should look" (p. 215). Having worked so hard to get there, Nova Scotia would stay with its empire in the crisis of 1776.

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