Fishing a Borderless Sea: Environmental Territorialism in the North Atlantic, 1818-1910

Contents

Contents vii acknowledgments xi introduction 1 1 “White-Washed Yankees”: The Beginnings of the Bait Trade, 1790–1854 29 2 “Intrusion of Strangers”: Seeking Local Control in an Emerging National Context, 1854–1885 59 3 “A fisherman ought to be a free trader anyway”: The Bait Trade in Diplomatic Controversy, 1886–1888 97 4 “Peaceable Settlement”: Bait and International Law, 1888–1910 121 conclusion 131 notes 153 bibliography 161 index ...