Rural Protest on Prince Edward Island : : From British Colonization to the Escheat Movement / / Rusty Bittermann.
Who has the more legitimate claim to land, settlers who occupy and improve it with their labour, or landlords who claim ownership on the basis of imperial grants? This question of property rights, and their construction, was at the heart of rural protest on Prince Edward Island for a century. Tenant...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Maps and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Eighteenth-Century Roots of Rural Protest
- 2. Land Issues in a Changing Context, 1800-1824
- 3. The Limitations of Developmental Politics, 1824-1831
- 4. Escheat Enters the Political Arena, 1831-1833
- 5. Resistance in the Countryside, 1832-1834
- 6. Organizing Proprietors, 1831-1834
- 7. Organizing Escheat, 1834-1836
- 8. Harvey and the Escheators, 1836-1837
- 9. Agrarian Institutions and the March to Power, 1837-1838
- 10. The Limits of Democratic Power, 1838-1842
- Appendix
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography