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