Fish into Wine
Subtitle: The Newfoundland Plantation in the Seventeenth Century
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: December 9, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780807829103
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Economic History; c 1600 to c 1700; English; Canada - Pre-Confederation (to 1867); Social life and customs; History; History - General History; History: American; Newfoundland; Frontier and pioneer life; United States - Colonial Period; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; cod fishery; English Shore; Ferryland; Sir George Calvert, Lord Baltimore; Sir David Kirke; trans-Atlantic trade; cultural anthropology; Canada; Canada - General; Plantation life; Anthropology - Cultural; 17th century; Economic conditions; Newfoundland and Labrador
First sentence: Today the term "plantation" has a particular connotation, redolent of southern monoculture.