Rusty Bittermann, Margaret McCallum

Lady Landlords of Prince Edward Island

Imperial Dreams and the Defence of Property. Sprache: Englisch.

kartoniert , 207 Seiten

ISBN 0773534245

EAN 9780773534247

Veröffentlicht August 2009

Verlag/Hersteller McGill-Queen's University Press

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Beschreibung

A lively look at estate management and resistance to land reform in nineteenth-century Prince Edward Island through the life stories of four elite British women landowners.

Portrait

Rusty Bittermann is a professor in the Department of History at St Thomas University and author of Rural Protest on Prince Edward Island: From British Colonization to the Escheat Movement, and co-author (with Margaret McCallum) of Lady Landlords of Prince Edward Island: Imperial Dreams and the Defence of Property.

Pressestimmen

"Captivating ... written with fluency and in an engaging style that holds the reader's attention. The authors present the wider history of land policy in PEI with a refreshing lucidity." Marjory Harper, University of Aberdeen