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

by J.M. Bumsted and Bumsted

In contrast to most previous works on the subject, this is not a local or regional history, but a book in colonial and/or imperial history which focuses on Prince Edward Island. This broader perspective allows Bumsted to show, for example, that the decision to distribute land to proprietors was a comprehensible and even liberal move by British government in the context of the imperial expansion of the 1760s. Bumsted demonstrates that the external...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773505660
• ISBN13: 9780773505667
• Release Date: June 1987
• Publisher: Carleton University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"