Download or read book The Cod Fishery of Colonial New England written by Austin White and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Seventeenth century English Cod Fisheries of Newfoundland and New England Circa 1600 1713 written by Arthur R. Clausnitzer and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation presents the results of a comparative study of English colonial-period fisheries sites from the Gulf of Maine and the English Shore of Newfoundland. Through a combination of archaeological and historical analysis, this dissertation sought to answer questions about the role of early resource-extraction industries in colonial societies, especially regarding the transition from a migratory to a permanent European presence in North America, and the construction of new social structures and identities. The expansion of Europeans into North America was motivated by a desire for new sources of wealth; the Atlantic Cod was one of the most important of these resources. The lightly salted and dried flesh of the codfish possessed not only economic, but also social, political, and strategic value. European exploitation of North American cod began at the start of the 16th century in Newfoundland; within the century it expanded southward to the Gulf of Maine and the adjacent New England territories of Massachusetts Bay and Maine. European exploitation in both regions originated with the cod fishery, yet by the end of the 17th century, differences had appeared in the social structures of English settlements in each region. Newfoundland remained largely dependent on the health and success of the cod fisheries to maintain its social structures. Maine was similar, yet with enough differences to be considered a distinct culture in its own right; Massachusetts Bay was an aberration in colonial history, quickly developing a relatively stable social, political, and economic structure which earned the colony a degree of independence not seen elsewhere in the English colonial world. This dissertation examines archaeological collections from six colonial fishing sites, three each from Newfoundland and New England, in an attempt to understand how the inhabitants lived and worked within the confines of the fisheries and the attendant socio-economic structures. Combined with a critical reevaluation of the existing historiography, this answered not only the research objectives of this dissertation but also allowed the construction of a novel research framework intended to help create a new and unified way of looking at all early resource-extraction industries.

Download or read book The New England Cod Fishing Industry and Maritime Dimensions of the American Revolution written by Christopher Paul Magra and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Revolution cannot be fully understood without coming to terms with why workers and merchants within the New England cod fishing industry resisted British authority and how their labor and capital contributed to the war effort. The Revolution began in New England with the shot heard around the world in Concord, Massachusetts. New England provided the most manpower for the American military each and every year of the war. And cod represented the most lucrative trade good in all of colonial New England. Between 1768 and 1772, fish represented 35% of New England's total export revenue. The second most valuable export commodity, livestock, represented only 20% of this revenue stream. By 1775, an estimated 10,000 New Englanders, or 8% of the adult male working population, labored in the fishing industry. Yet, to date there has not been a systematic effort to investigate the relationship between this vital colonial industry and the Revolutionary War.

Download or read book The Fish and Fisheries of Colonial North America The New England States written by John Cleary Pearson and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A History of the New England Fisheries written by Raymond McFarland and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of the New England Fisheries: With Maps The fisheries of New England were of especial importance during the colonial period and still continue to be of greater economic importance than at any previous period of our history; yet the industry, with the exception of the whale fishery, has no literature that adequately sets forth its history and value. There are several good accounts of the whale fishery; but the story of the cod and mackerel and inshore fisheries does not appear to have been an attractive field to writers. The accounts we have of the history and of the methods of the fisheries have been prompted largely by government inquiry and exist as government re ports. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Migrations and Other Phases in the Life History of the Cod Off Southern New England written by William Charles Schroeder and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Colonial America To 1763 written by Thomas L. Purvis and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles life in the United States during the Colonial period, including information on weather, economy, population, religion, education, arts and letters, and popular culture.

Download or read book The Means of Paying for Colonial New England s Imports written by Richard Charles Berner and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cod Fisheries written by Harold A. Innis and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1978-12-15 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cod Fisheries, originally published in 1938 and revised and reissued in 1954, presented a new interpretation of European and North American history that has since become a classic. With that rare skill he possessed of weaving together the various strands of a complex and difficult historical situation, Innis showed how the exploitation of the cod fisheries from the fifteenth century to the twentieth has been closely tied up with the whole economic and political development of Western Europe and North America. The relationship of the fisheries to the maritime greatness of Britain and to the growth of New England as an important commercial power is particularly stressed; and in the examination of the conflicts growing up about this industry are revealed the forces underlying the struggle between Britain and France for control of the new world, and the forces which led to the collapse of thye British Empire in America and the rise of an independent new world political power. The political struggles with Nova Scotia and the long conflict with the United States, continuing far into the nineteenth century, are examined in careful detail.

Download or read book Fish and Fisheries of Colonial North America a Documentary History of the Fishery Resources of the United States and Canada V 2 the New England States written by United States. National Marine Fisheries Service and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Fisherman s Cause written by Christopher P. Magra and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-06 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines why and how colonial fishermen and fish merchants mobilized for the American Revolution, underscoring the pivotal maritime efforts that secured American independence.

Download or read book A History of the New England Fisheries with Maps written by Raymond McFarland and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX "A CALCULATION OP THE STATE OF THE COD AND WHALE FISHERY, BELONGING TO MASSACHUSETTS IN 1763: COPIED FROM A PAPER PUBLISHED IN 1764. 300 vessels in the cod fishery caught 102,265 quintals of merchantable fish, at 12s 61,359.00 and 137,794 quintals of West India fish, at 9s 62,007.06 90 mackerel vessels, at 200 barrels each, are 18,000 barrels at 18s 16,200.00 Shad alewives and other pickled fish, 10,000 bbls. at 10s. 5,000.00 12 bbls. of oil to each cod fishing vessel are 1,600, at 30s. 5,400.00 15,000 hhds. for packing West India fish, at 6s 4,500.00 West India fish from Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland in return for provisions, rum, sugar and molasses.... 10,000.00 18C sail of whale fishing vessels, the exportations to Great Britain amounting, in oil and bone, to 75,000.00 To the West Indies and Continent in do 3,500.00 Total 242,966.06" Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., VIII, pp. 202-203. B. STATISTICS OF THE COD-FISHERY OF MASSACHUSETTS FROM THE YEAR 1765 TO 1776, AND FROM 1786 TO 1790.i i Sabine, Report of the Principal Fisheries of the Am. Seas, p. 174. c. STATISTICS OF THE BANK, BAY, AND LABRADOR CODFISHERIES OF NEW ENGLAND, 1790-1810.1 Vessels employed in the Bank, Bay, and Labrador fisheries. 1,232 Tonnage 85,140 Number of men 10,469 Number of hogsheads of salt consumed 178,370 Number of quintals of fish taken 1,158,700 Number of barrels of oil made 37,520 RECAPITULATION OF THE COD AND MACKEREL FISHERIES OF NEW ENGLAND, 1790-1800.1 Vessels 2,332 Tonnage 115,940 Men 16,069 Salt, hogsheads 265,370 Fish, quintals 1,353,700 Oil, barrels 50,520 Mackerel, barrels 60,000 i Adams, Duplicate Letters, quoting a letter from a gentleman of Boston. D. QUANTITY AND VALUE OF THE PRINCIPAL PRODUCTS TAKEN IN THE FISHERIES OF THE NEW...

Download or read book Cod written by Mark Kurlansky and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wars have been fought over it, revolutions have been spurred by it, national diets have been based on it, economies have depended on it, and the settlement of North America was driven by it. Cod, it turns out, is the reason Europeans set sail across the Atlantic, and it is the only reason they could. What did the Vikings eat in icy Greenland and on the five expeditions to America recorded in the Icelandic sagas? Cod -- frozen and dried in the frosty air, then broken into pieces and eaten like hardtack. What was the staple of the medieval diet? Cod again, sold salted by the Basques, an enigmatic people with a mysterious, unlimited supply of cod. Cod is a charming tour of history with all its economic forces laid bare and a fish story embellished with great gastronomic detail. It is also a tragic tale of environmental failure, of depleted fishing stocks where once the cod's numbers were legendary. In this deceptively whimsical biography of a fish, Mark Kurlansky brings a thousand years of human civilization into captivating focus.

Download or read book New England and the Maritime Provinces written by Stephen J. Hornsby and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2005-09-19 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A significant addition to the growing field of transnational studies, New England and the Maritime Provinces reveals a relationship that, although sometimes troubled, retains its importance in the current era of globalization.

Download or read book Fish Into Wine written by Peter Edward Pope and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Download or read book The Cod Fishery of Isle Royale 1713 58 written by B. A. Balcom and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines the Isle Royale Fishery, analyses itseconomic importance, its methodology, the personnel involved, andits impact on society.

Download or read book The Unending Frontier written by John F. Richards and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-05-15 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John F.