Cod Fisheries : : The History of an International Economy / / Harold Innis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Innis, Harold,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1978
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (522 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- FOREWORD -- AUTHOR’S PREFACE -- PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION -- CONTENTS -- MAPS -- CHAPTER I. THE COD -- CHAPTER II. THE EXPANSION OF THE FRENCH, 1497-1550 -- CHAPTER III. THE SPANISH AND ENGLISH FISHERIES 1550-1600 -- CHAPTER IV. THE STRUGGLE AGAINST MONOPOLY 1600-1650 -- CHAPTER V. THE EXPANSION OF THE WEST INDIES AND NEW ENGLAND, 1650-1713 -- CHAPTER VI. THE SUPREMACY OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE 1713-1763 -- CHAPTER VII. THE COLLAPSE OF THE FIRST BRITISH EMPIRE 1763--1783 -- CHAPTER VIII. THE EFFECTS OF WAR ON FRANCE AND NEW ENGLAND, 1783-1833 -- CHAPTER IX. THE RISE OF NOVA SCOTIA, 1783-1833 -- CHAPTER X. THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND NEWFOUNDLAND, 1783-1833 -- CHAPTER XI. NOVA SCOTIA AND CONFEDERATION, 1838-1886 -- CHAPTER XII. COMMERCIALISM AND THE NEWFOUNDLAND FISHERY, 1833-1886 -- CHAPTER XIII. FROM COMMERCIALISM TO CAPITALISM, 1886-1936 -- CHAPTER XIV. CAPITALISM IN NEWFOUNDLAND, 1886-1936 -- NOTES TO THE REVISED EDITION -- INDEX