The article reviewed is The Golden Age: Acadian Life, 1713-1748. It was written by Naomi Griffiths, and published in Social History 17, 33 (May 1984): 21-34. The Golden Age is a reference to the prosperous times encountered by the Acadian people. The Acadians lived in what is known as modern day Nova Scotia. While the Main Center of there colonies was Grand Pre, which lied on the coast against the Bay of Fundy. This article is an attempt to examine and explore the prosperity that the Acadians experienced between 1713 and 1748. Griffiths labeled it the Golden age for various reasons. Such as the lack of a major health epidemics, no major wars and a significantly better way of life then previous years in the area and when compared to other settlements of the time. Griffith has marveled at the wealth of information available on the subject of Acadian life.
Acadian communities
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Acadia (1754)She finds this as a challenge to work on that is very hard to resist, yet worries slightly due to the somewhat overwhelming amount of information that is now available. This article does a good job conveying the prosperity and well fortune experienced by the Acadian people during the defined time.
Griffiths starts by explaining that most early studies done on the subject of Acadia and its people were done as a whole and tend to encompass the whole existence of the Acadians in Nova Scotia. She states that in early works the focus of the Acadian people was the deportation in 1755 and the various influences that both Britain and France exploit of the colony. She does mention that after the 1950s there is a whole new plethora of information becoming available. This is due to the more intense and matures studies done in the recent...