Fish into wine
Subtitle: the Newfoundland plantation in the seventeenth century
By: Peter E. Pope.
Contributors: Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture.
Publisher: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 463
Subjects: Plantation life -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- History -- 17th century.; Frontier and pioneer life -- Newfoundland and Labrador.; English -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- History -- 17th century.; Atlantic cod fisheries -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- History -- 17th century.; Land settlement -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- History -- 17th century.; Newfoundland and Labrador -- Social life and customs -- 17th century.; Newfoundland and Labrador -- Economic conditions -- 17th century.; Newfoundland and Labrador -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 17th century.; England -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 17th century.
Description: "Combining 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." "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 the rise of metropolitan merchants, the development of proprietary rivalries, and competition with the French, who temporarily dispersed the English planters at the end of the century. Yet, as Pope argues, the substantial archaeological remains of settlement point to the importance of seventeenth-century developments and their underpinnings in the Atlantic economy - a role that made possible the quick revival of English Newfoundland in the eighteenth century."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.