{"product_id":"rural-protest-on-prince-edward-island-9780802072290","title":"Rural Protest on Prince Edward Island","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\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 Worl\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405222093143,"sku":"9780802072290","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780802072290.jpg?v=1730489172","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/rural-protest-on-prince-edward-island-9780802072290","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}