Dr. Rusty Bittermann
Department of History
Professor (2000)
BA (UCCB), MA, PhD (UNB)

Phone: 506-452-0545
email: rusty@stu.ca

Courses taught:

• World History (HIST 1006)
  
• World History Since the Second World War (HIST 2053)
• Water and World History (HIST 3403)
• Agriculture and World History (HIST 3423)
• Social Movements that Have Changed the Modern World (HIST 3503)
• The History of Here: From the Pleistocene to the Present (HIST 3823)
  
• Canadian Land Struggles in Comparative Global Perspective Since 1945 (HIST 3933)
• Historians and World History (HIST 4136)
• The Environmental History of the World (HIST 4886)
  

Recent Publications:

Books:

Sailor’s Hope: The Life and Times of William Cooper, Agrarian Radical in an Age of Revolutions Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010. (Winner of the 2011 Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing & 2010 Prince Edward Island Museum and Heritage Foundation Publication of the Year Award).

Lady Landlords of Prince Edward Island:Imperial Dreams and the Defence of Property (With Dr. Margaret McCallum) Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008. (Winner of 2008 Prince Edward Island Heritage Award).

Rural Protest on Prince Edward Island: From British Colonization to the Escheat Movement. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. (Winner of 2006 Clio Prize, Atlantic Region, Canadian Historical Association & 2006 Prince Edward Island Heritage Award).

Articles and Chapters:

"From Wine to Wood: The Goslings of London and Prince Edward Island's Early Timber Trade, Island Magazine 69 (Spring/Summer 2011).

“The Remarkable Saga of the Coopers of Coopers Mills, Hydesville,” Humboldt Historian, 58:2 (Summer 2010).

“The Promise and Perils of Out-Migration: The William Cooper Family in California,” Island Magazine 66 (Fall/Winter 2009)

"Upholding the Land Legislation of a 'Communistic and Socialist Assembly': The Benefits of Confederation for Prince Edward Island." (With Dr. Margaret McCallum) Canadian Historical Review 87:1 (March 2006).

"Lady Landlords and the Final Defence of Landlordism on Prince Edward Island: The Case of Charlotte Sulivan." Histoire sociale/Social History 38:76 (November 2005). (Winner of 2006 Hilda Neatby Prize awarded by Canadian Historical Association for best English-language article on women's history published in a Canadian journal or anthology).

"The One that Got Away: Fishery Reserves in Prince Edward Island." (With Dr. Margaret McCallum) Dalhousie Law Review 28:2 (Fall 2005).

"Rural Protest on Prince Edward Island in Transatlantic Context: From the Aftermath of the Seven Years' War to the 1840s." In TransAtlantic Revolutions: Agrarian Radicalism in Comparative Context. Edited by James C. Scott and Thomas Summerhill. Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2004.

"When Private Rights Become Public Wrongs: Property and the State in Prince Edward Island in the 1830s." (With Dr. Margaret McCallum) In Despotic Dominion: Property Rights in British Settler Societies. Edited by John McLaren, A.R. Buck and Nancy E. Wright. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2004.

Other Publications

Recent Presentations:

"What's the Matter with William Cooper?: History, Agency and the Construction of Heroes," 9th Annual J.B. McLachlan Memorial Lecture, Sydney, Nova Scotia, October 2007.

"Canadian Aboriginal Law and Policy Goes Global: The Calder Case and its Ramifications," (with Dr. Margaret McCallum) Annual History Lecture, St. Francis Xavier University, November 2006.