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Fish into Wine: The Newfoundland Plantation in the Seventeenth Century
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by Peter E. Pope
Sales Rank: 2077782
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List Price: $70.00
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 496 pages
Published by: The University of North Carolina Press December 9, 2003
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0807829102
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0807829103
Book Dimensions:
9.4 x 6.2 x 1.5 inches
Weighs: 1.8 pounds
Product Review
"Impressively researched and methodologically eclectic. . . . An ambitious, complex, and thought-provoking study that should bring a lot more attention to early Newfoundland."
- Itinerario
"[A] penetrating . . . conjectural mixture of history, geography, economics, anthropology, and international relations."
- Choice
"Pope succeeds gloriously in bringing this critical, intermeshed Atlantic trade and industry to life.
(Nicholas Canny, National University of Ireland, Galway) "
Product Description
Combining innovative archaeological analysis with historical research, Peter E. Pope looks at 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 and New England, 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 French 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.
Reader Reviews
This review is from: Fish into Wine: The Newfoundland Plantation in the Seventeenth Century (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia) (Paperback)
Peter Pope writes an excellent account of the Newfoundland Plantation in the seventeenth century. Notably, he details the prominent position that the island held in the trans-Atlantic trade during the same period. It's a wonderful and thorough revisionist account that shifts some focus from the more traditional and well documented trading centres of North America. Overall, a stellar analysis of Early Modern Newfoundland!
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