The liberty to take fish : Atlantic fisheries and federal power in nineteenth-century America / Thomas Blake Earle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Earle, Thomas Blake, author.

Series:

Cornell scholarship online.

Cornell scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fisheries--Political aspects--North Atlantic Ocean--History--18th century.

Fisheries.

Fisheries--Political aspects--North Atlantic Ocean--History--19th century.

Fisheries--North Atlantic Ocean--History--18th century.

Fisheries--North Atlantic Ocean--History--19th century.

Fishery policy--North Atlantic Ocean--History--18th century.

Fishery policy.

Fishery policy--North Atlantic Ocean--History--19th century.

United States--Foreign relations--Great Britain.

United States.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--United States.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2024.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction : The World the Fish Made

Fisheries and the Flotsam of Revolution

The Limits of Peace

The Ruby and Reindeer Affair

"Our Living is Truly that of Fishermen"

Fishermen at High Tide

Sea Changes

Abandoning the Fishermen and Embracing the British

Epilogue : The World the Fishermen Made.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 9, 2024).

Other Format:

Print version: Earle, Thomas Blake The Liberty to Take Fish

ISBN:

9781501770876

150177087X

9781501770869

1501770861

OCLC:

1370249244