TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bittermann,Rusty
TI  - Rural protest on Prince Edward Island: from British colonization to the Escheat movement 
SN  - 9781442632066
AV  - HD1511 .R873 2006
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Toronto
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Farm tenancy
KW  - Prince Edward Island
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Land reform
KW  - Baux ruraux
KW  - Île-du-Prince-Édouard
KW  - Réforme agraire
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 2; b
N2  - "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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