{"product_id":"rural-protest-on-prince-edward-rusty-bittermann-9780802004390","title":"Rural Protest on Prince Edward Island: From British Colonization to the Escheat Movement","description":"\u003cp\u003eWho 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\u003cem\u003e Rural Protest on Prince Edward Island\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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. The Escheat movement aimed at resolving the land question in favour of tenants by having the state resume (escheat) the large grants of land that created landlordism on the Island. Although it ultimately gained control of the assembly in the late 1830s, the Escheat movement did not produce the land policies that tenants and their allies advocated. The movement did, however, synthesize years of rural protest and produce a persistent legacy of language and ideas concerning land, justice, and the rights of small producers that helped to make landlordism on the Island unsustainable in the long term. \u003cem\u003e Rural Protest on Prince Edward Island\u003c\/em\u003e is a comprehensive and fascinating examination of an important, but often overlooked, period in the history of Canada's smallest province.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rusty Bittermann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0802004393\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802004390\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 386\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.04w x 1.15d","brand":"Rusty Bittermann","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48621789151487,"sku":"9780802004390","price":102.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rural-protest-on-prince-edward-rusty-bittermann-9780802004390","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}