Rural protest on Prince Edward Island from British colonization to the Escheat movement /
Bittermann, Rusty, 1951-
Rural protest on Prince Edward Island from British colonization to the Escheat movement / Rusty Bittermann. - Toronto : University of Toronto Press, (c)2006. - 1 online resource (xii, 372 pages) : illustrations, maps
Includes bibliographies and index.
"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. Tenants resisted landlord claims by squatting and refusing to pay rent. They fought for their vision of a just rural order through petitions, meetings, rallies, electoral campaigns, and direct action. Landlords responded with their own collective action to protect their interests. In Rural Protest on Prince Edward Island Rusty Bittermann examines this conflict and the dynamic of rural protest on the Island from its establishment as a British colony in the 1760s to the early 1840s. The focus of Bittermann's study is the remarkable mass movement known as the Escheat movement, which emerged in the 1830s in the context of growing popular challenges elsewhere in the Atlantic World."
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9781442632066 9781442633742
Farm tenancy--History--Prince Edward Island--19th century.
Land reform--History--Prince Edward Island--19th century.
Baux ruraux.
Farm tenancy.
Île-du-Prince-Édouard.
Land reform.
Prince Edward Island.
Réforme agraire.
Electronic Books.
HD1511 / .R873 2006
Rural protest on Prince Edward Island from British colonization to the Escheat movement / Rusty Bittermann. - Toronto : University of Toronto Press, (c)2006. - 1 online resource (xii, 372 pages) : illustrations, maps
Includes bibliographies and index.
"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. Tenants resisted landlord claims by squatting and refusing to pay rent. They fought for their vision of a just rural order through petitions, meetings, rallies, electoral campaigns, and direct action. Landlords responded with their own collective action to protect their interests. In Rural Protest on Prince Edward Island Rusty Bittermann examines this conflict and the dynamic of rural protest on the Island from its establishment as a British colony in the 1760s to the early 1840s. The focus of Bittermann's study is the remarkable mass movement known as the Escheat movement, which emerged in the 1830s in the context of growing popular challenges elsewhere in the Atlantic World."
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
9781442632066 9781442633742
Farm tenancy--History--Prince Edward Island--19th century.
Land reform--History--Prince Edward Island--19th century.
Baux ruraux.
Farm tenancy.
Île-du-Prince-Édouard.
Land reform.
Prince Edward Island.
Réforme agraire.
Electronic Books.
HD1511 / .R873 2006