From Outpost to Outport: A Structural Analysis of the Jersey-Gaspé Cod Fishery, 1767-1886

Author:   Rosemary E. Ommer ,  Rosemary E. Ommer
Publisher:   McGill-Queen's University Press
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9780773507302


Pages:   264
Publication Date:   01 December 1990
Format:   Hardback
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From Outpost to Outport: A Structural Analysis of the Jersey-Gaspé Cod Fishery, 1767-1886


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Author:   Rosemary E. Ommer ,  Rosemary E. Ommer
Publisher:   McGill-Queen's University Press
Imprint:   McGill-Queen's University Press
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9780773507302


ISBN 10:   0773507302
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   01 December 1990
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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There has been, until recently, a lamentable ignorance among historians of the British North American fisheries. [This study], erected on a firm basis of documentary sources, [is] an entirely original contribution. Julian Gwyn, Department of History, University of Ottawa. Ommer does not write thick history' about the Gaspe fishery, but underscores, rather, the way in which some key Jersey merchants used the cod fishery to enhance their economic status. This analysis of the symbiotic relationship of Jersey and the Gaspe makes a significant contribution to Staple Literature. George Rawlyk, Department of History, Queen's University.


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Rosemary E. Ommer heads the Coasts Under Stress Research project Team. She is the SSHRC grants facilitator and co-director, Institute for Social Ecological Studies, University of Victoria. The Coasts Under Stress Research Project Team is made up natura

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