Fish into Wine
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Fish into Wine

The Newfoundland Plantation in the Seventeenth Century

  1. 496 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Fish into Wine

The Newfoundland Plantation in the Seventeenth Century

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. List of Illustrations
  5. List of Tables
  6. Abbreviations and Short Titles
  7. Methodology
  8. Introduction: The Newfoundland Plantation
  9. Chapter 1: The Early Fishery
  10. Chapter 2: Early Settlement
  11. Chapter 3: Adventures in the Sack Trade
  12. Chapter 4: Planting Countries
  13. Chapter 5: Service in the Fishery
  14. Chapter 6: Residents
  15. Chapter 7: Transients
  16. Chapter 8: Planters and Gentry
  17. Chapter 9: Outport Economics
  18. Chapter 10: Fish into Wine
  19. Chapter 11: The End of a Century
  20. Glossary
  21. Index