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The Far Reaches of Empire chronicles the half century of AngloAmerican efforts to establish dominion in Nova Scotia an important French foothold in the New World John Grenier examines the conflict of cultures and peoples in the colonial Northeast through the lens of military history as he tells how Britons and Yankees waged a tremendously efficient counterinsurgency that ultimately crushed every remnant of Acadian Indian and French resistance in Nova ScotiaThe author demonstrates the importance of warfare in the AngloFrench competition for North America showing especially how AngloAmericans used brutal but effective measures to wrest control of Nova Scotia from French and Indian enemies who were no less ruthless He explores the influence of Abenakis Maliseets and Mikmaq in shaping the regions history revealing them to be more than the supposed pawns of outsiders and he describes the machinations of French officials military officers and Catholic priests in stirring up resistanceArguing that the Acadians were not merely helpless victims of ethnic cleansing Grenier shows that individual actions and larger forces of history influenced the decision to remove them The Far Reaches of Empire illuminates the primacy of war in establishing British supremacy in northeastern North America
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