Campus eBookstore Logo

Skip Navigation LinksEBook Details

Land, Settlement, and Politics on Eighteenth-Century Prince Edward Island

Land, Settlement, and Politics on Eighteenth-Century Prince Edward Island
Author: Bumsted, J.
Price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0773561161
ISBN-13: 9780773561168
Get It!:
Delivery: BibliU Reader
Duration: Lifetime

Note:
Copy Selections To Clipboard: User can copy content to the clipboard with the following restriction: Initially allowance of 25 copy selections. Another copy selection allowed every Day. To a maximum of 25 total copy selections.
Printing Pages: User can print pages with the following restriction: Initially allowance of 25 pages. Another page allowed every Day. To a maximum of 25 total pages.

Description

Soon after Prince Edward Island was transferred from French to British sovereignty in 1763, virtually the entire land surface was turned over to private proprietors on the understanding that they would finance both settlement and the administration of the territory. While the proprietors did not fulfil their obligations, they clung tenanciously to their privileges, ultimately becoming an anachronistic group of landlords on a North American continent where freehold tenure was the norm. J.M. Bumsted goes beyond the previous "heroes" (residents) and "villains" (landlords) approach of much of Island historiography by demonstrating the intimate interweaving of the issues of land, politics, and settlement.