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Name: american fish-culture-thaddeus norris 1868
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Title: American fish-culture, embracing all the details of artificial breeding and rearing of trout; the culture of salmon, shad, and other fishes
Author: Norris, Thaddeus, 1811-1877
Language: angielski
Year: 2012
Subjects: History, Science & Technology, Current Affairs & Politics, Social Sciences, European History, Agricultural Sciences, Aquatic Life & Sciences, Immigration & Emigration, World History, British History - General & Miscellaneous, Immigration & Emigration - Europe, 17th Century British History - General & Miscellaneous, Fisheries & Aquaculture, Immigration & Emigration - Great Britain, Immigration & Emigration - History
Publisher: Omohundro Institute and UNC Press
ISBN: 9780807839171
Total pages: 338

Combining innovative archaeological analysis with historical research, Peter E. Pope examines the way of life that developed in seventeenth-century Newfoundland, where settlement was sustained by seasonal migration to North America's oldest industry, the cod fishery.

The unregulated English settlements that grew up around the exchange of fish for wine served the fishery by catering to nascent consumer demand. The English Shore became a hub of transatlantic trade, linking Newfoundland with the Chesapeake, New and old England, southern Europe, and the Atlantic islands. Pope gives special attention to Ferryland, the proprietary colony founded by Sir George Calvert, Lord Baltimore, in 1621, but later taken over by the London merchant Sir David Kirke and his remarkable family. The saga of the Kirkes provides a narrative line connecting social and economic developments on the English Shore with metropolitan merchants, proprietary rivalries, and international competition.

Employing a rich variety of evidence to place the fisheries in the context of transatlantic commerce, Pope makes Newfoundland a fresh point of view for understanding the demographic, economic, and cultural history of the expanding North Atlantic world.