John G. Reid

Synopsis: Providing a concise chronicle of its various cultures, this handy reference recounts the broad and complex history of Nova Scotia, Canada. Beginning with an exploration of its indigenous people, the Mi'Kmaq, this overview delves into the stories of the first European settlers before reviewing the dominant English colonists and how they shaped the province. Documenting the different challenges each group faced, this reconstruction illustrates the Mi'Kmaq' battle for survival, the conquering of the Acadiens, and the toil of the working people who came to Nova Scotia in search of a better life. Ranging from its earliest days to the beginning of the 21st century, this illuminating examination paints a clearer picture of the most populous province in Atlantic Canada.

Josh Wilson's ninth grade history project leads him into a parallel world where Native American people have not been displaced by colonists, but instead thrive in a powerful domain and co-exist with small colonies in Massachusetts and New York. Josh has only a few days to find his way back to his own world while helping his guide Rencatha save her grandfather and her home settlement.

"The conquest of Port Royal by British forces in 1710 is an intensely revealing episode in the history of northeastern North America. Bringing together multilayered perspectives, including the conquest's effects on aboriginal inhabitants, Acadians, and New Englanders, and using a variety of methodologies to contextualize the incident in local, regional, and imperial terms, six prominent scholars form new conclusions regarding the events of 1710." "Important on both a local and global scale, The 'Conquest' of Acadia will be a significant contribution to Acadian history, native studies, native rights histories, and the socio-political history of the eighteenth century."--Jacket.

"Hector Maclean (1751 1812) served as a Lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion of the 84th Regiment (Royal Highland Emigrants) during the War of the American Revolution. After the war, he joined a substantial number of other veterans of the 2nd Battalion in settling in the newly-created County of Hants, Nova Scotia--specifically, in the Kennetcook area. The book includes annotated texts of the two major historical sources regarding the life and times of Hector Maclean: the letters he wrote between 1779 and 1787, primarily to Murdoch Maclaine; and the diary he kept from 1 April 1786 to 5 April 1787, using the empty pages of his orderly book left over from the participation of the 84th in the South Carolina campaign of 1781. The letters show Maclean as an actively serving officer, in contexts ranging from a recruiting expedition to Newfoundland in 1779, which led to his shipwreck in Ireland in early 1780, to the strategically significant Battle of Eutaw Springs, South Carolina, in September 1781. The entries in the orderly book, although occupying a much lesser proportion of the book than the diary, provide further insights into the conduct of the battle. The letters from 1783 onwards provide a vivid insight into the settlement process by which Maclean established himself at Kennetcook, while the diary offers a detailed, day-by-day account of a year during this phase of his life--it contains not only valuable evidence regarding the environmental and labour history of a military settler's farm but also an account of Maclean's social life and the cultural history of the members of the small Windsor-based elite with whom he mingled. Thus, the letters and diary have direct relevance to the military history of the Revolutionary War and to the environmental, cultural, and social histories of postwar settlement in Nova Scotia."--

"This pioneering comparative study of British imperialism in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds draws on the perspectives of British newcomers overseas and their native hosts, metropolitan officials and corporate enterprises, migrants and settlers. Leading scholars examine the divergences and commonalities in the legal and economic regimes that allowed Britain to project imperium across the globe. They explore the nature of sovereignty and law, governance and regulation, diplomacy, military relations and commerce, shedding new light on the processes of expansion that influenced the making of empire. While acknowledging the distinctions and divergences in imperial endeavours in Asia and the Americas - not least in terms of the size of indigenous populations, technical and cultural differences, and approaches to indigenous polities - this book argues that these differences must be seen in the context of what Britons overseas shared, including constitutional principles, claims of sovereignty, disciplinary regimes and military attitudes"--