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Author Bittermann, Rusty

Title Rural Protest on Prince Edward Island : From British Colonization to the Escheat Movement
Edition 2nd ed
Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (385 pages)
Contents Cover -- 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 -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y
Summary Rural Protest on Prince Edward Island is a comprehensive and fascinating examination of an important, but often overlooked, period in the history of Canada's smallest province
Notes Print version record
Subject Farm tenancy -- Prince Edward Island -- History -- 19th century
Land reform -- Prince Edward Island -- History -- 19th century
Farm tenancy
Land reform
Politics and government
SUBJECT Prince Edward Island -- Politics and government -- 19th century
Subject Prince Edward Island
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Bittermann, Rusty
ISBN 9781442632066
1442632062