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- Fish into Wine: The Newfoundland Plantation in the Seventeenth Century
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: The University of North Carolina Press
- Series: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
summary
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.
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.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- p. xi
- Illustrations
- p. xvii
- Abbreviations and Short Titles
- pp. xxi-xxvi
- Methodology
- p. xxvii
- Chapter 1: The Early Fishery
- pp. 11-44
- Chapter 2: Early Settlement
- pp. 45-78
- Chapter 3: Adventures in the Sack Trade
- pp. 79-121
- Chapter 4: Planting Countries
- pp. 122-160
- Chapter 5: Service in the Fishery
- pp. 161-193
- Chapter 6: Residents
- pp. 194-233
- Chapter 7: Transients
- pp. 234-254
- Chapter 8: Planters and Gentry
- pp. 255-305
- Chapter 9: Outport Economics
- pp. 306-348
- Chapter 10: Fish into Wine
- pp. 349-406
- Chapter 11: The End of a Century
- pp. 407-438
Additional Information
ISBN
9781469601175
Related ISBN(s)
9780807829103, 9780807855768
MARC Record
OCLC
966768159
Pages
496
Launched on MUSE
2017-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No