Book ID: CBB256588521

The Liberty to Take Fish: Atlantic Fisheries and Federal Power in Nineteenth-Century America (2023)

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Earle, Thomas Blake (Author)


Cornell University Press


Publication Date: 2023
Physical Details: 292
Language: English

In The Liberty to Take Fish, Thomas Blake Earle offers an incisive and nuanced history of the long American Revolution, describing how aspirations to political freedom coupled with the economic imperatives of commercial fishing roiled relations between the young United States and powerful Great Britain. The American Revolution left the United States with the "liberty to take fish" from the waters of the North Atlantic. Indispensable to the economic health of the new nation, the cod fisheries of the Grand Banks, the Bay of Fundy, and the Gulf of St. Lawrence quickly became symbols of American independence in an Atlantic world dominated by Great Britain. The fisheries issue was a near-constant concern in American statecraft that impinged upon everything, from Anglo-American relations, to the operation of American federalism, and even to the nature of the marine environment. Earle explores the relationship between the fisheries and the state through the Civil War era when closer ties between the United States and Great Britain finally surpassed the contentious interests of the fishing industry on the nation's agenda.The Liberty to Take Fish is a rich story that moves from the staterooms of Washington and London to the decks of fishing schooners and into the Atlantic itself to understand how ordinary fishermen and the fish they pursued shaped and were, in turn, shaped by those far-off political and economic forces. Earle returns fishing to its once-central place in American history and shows that the nation of the nineteenth century was indeed a maritime one.

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Authors & Contributors
Betts, Jonathan
Bolster, W. Jeffrey
Grasso, Glenn M.
Heim, Susanne
Hubbard, Jennifer Mary
Johnson, Sherry
Journals
Environmental History
Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage
The Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe
Historical Archaeology
Terrae Incognitae
Publishers
Wallstein Verlag
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Breakwater Books
Harvard University Press
Liverpool University Press
McGill-Queen's University Press
Concepts
Fisheries; fishing
maritime history
Environmental history
Science and State
Environmental sciences
Longitude and latitude
People
Champlain, Samuel de
Dudley, Robert
Harrison, John
Harrison, Edward
Reinel, Pedro
Zhu, Kezhen
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
16th century
17th century
20th century, early
Places
Atlantic Ocean
Great Britain
Germany
Newfoundland (Canada)
Africa
Ontario (Canada)
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