Elements of the staple model are used to suggest that the resource base of the fishery and the legal institutions of the initial fishing industry limited the ability of fishing families to respond otherwise to exploitation by merchants. [...] The Red River Settlement and the colonization of Vancouver Island broke the hold of the Hudson's Bay Company over the territories beyond the colonial pale. [...] In the towns, a variety of manufacturing - from the processing of agricultural products for ship- ment and the construction and clothing trades, to the provision of a wide variety of consumer and capital goods required by rural and growing urban markets - provided the context for the emerging dis- tinction between capitalist and wage labourer. [...] An essential part of the quest for liberal-democratic reform on the island was a rural one, 14 Hope and Deception in Conception Bay which demanded fairer administration of land which would benefit the productive majority of the population who lived by the cultivation of the soil.20 The importance of agricultural settlement to the emergence of a liberal democratic order is well illustrated by devel [...] The transatlantic fishery was also vulnerable to the depredations of England's enemies during the many wars of the eighteenth century.4 THE RESIDENT FISHERY Settlement at Newfoundland became the West Country merchants' so- lution to the problems of the migratory fishery.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-231)
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- 338.3/727/09718
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- HD9464.C33
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- N43 1995eb
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Table of Contents
- CONTENTS 6
- PREFACE: The Chimera of Newfoundland History 8
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 14
- Part One: Setting and Context 16
- Introduction 18
- 1 Political Economy of the Resident Fishery 33
- Part Two: The Household Fishery 50
- 2 Fishing Households and Family Labour 52
- 3 Household Agriculture 66
- 4 Women in Household Production 79
- Part Three: Fishing People and Merchants 96
- 5 The Legal Regime of the Fishery 98
- 6 Truck as Paternal Accommodation 115
- Part Four: The Chimera 136
- 7 Agriculture and Government Relief 138
- 8 Liberals and the Law 156
- Conclusion 177
- APPENDIX A: The Law of Wage and Lien 186
- APPENDIX B: Selection of Court Record Evidence 190
- NOTES 196
- BIBLIOGRAPHY 232
- INDEX 248
- A 248
- B 248
- C 249
- D 250
- E 250
- F 250
- G 251
- H 251
- I 252
- J 252
- K 252
- L 252
- M 253
- N 253
- O 254
- P 254
- Q 255
- R 255
- S 255
- T 256
- U 256
- V 256
- W 256
- Y 257
