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Land, settlement, and politics on eighteenth-century Prince Edward Island /
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 co...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Kingston [Ont.] :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
1987.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Contents
- Preface
- Prologue: The French Regime
- 1 British Colonial Policy and the Island of St John, 1763�1767
- 2 The Organization of Government, 1767�1775
- 3 Settlement, 1769�1775
- 4 The Years of the American Revolution, 1775�1780
- 5 Grabbing for Land, 1780�1783
- 6 Welcoming the Loyalists, 1783�1784
- 7 Loyalists versus Proprietors, 1784�1786
- 8 Fanning Fights for Control, 1786�1789
- 9 Governors Attacked and Highlanders Arrived, 1789�1792
- 10 The Rise of the Escheat Movement, 1792�1798
- Epilogue
- Notes
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