Terra Nova : food, water, and work in an early Atlantic world / Jack Bouchard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bouchard, Jack, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fisheries--Newfoundland and Labrador.

Fisheries.

Fisheries--North Atlantic Ocean.

Atlantic cod fishing--Newfoundland and Labrador.

Atlantic cod fishing.

Atlantic cod fisheries--Newfoundland and Labrador.

Atlantic cod fisheries.

Newfoundland and Labrador--History.

Newfoundland and Labrador.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Food, water, and work in an early Atlantic world

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2025.

Summary:

A bottom-up story of the fishworkers, whalers, First Nations, merchantwomen, oceans, and animals who together made a new colonial world in the early Atlantic. In the early decades of the sixteenth century, mariners from across Europe forged a vast seasonal fishery along the coasts of the northwest Atlantic.

"In the early decades of the sixteenth century, mariners from across Europe forged a vast seasonal fishery along the coasts of the northwest Atlantic. Long before there was Newfoundland or Canada, Europeans called this floating colony Terra Nova... Historian Jack Bouchard tells the story of Terra Nova, showing that its early development was shaped by colonial histories across the Atlantic world. He demonstrates that when we put food production, ocean environments, and maritime labor at the center of the story, we can see the overlooked lives and voices of those who made change in these early years. The result is a new history of the Atlantic world: one where humans migrate in the wake of ice and fish, where Indigenous American and Arctic trade routes are joined to transatlantic exchange, where colonies exist without settlement or empire, and where food production, labor, and maritime landscapes are at the center of our shared history." --Page 2 of cover.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

A Note on Names

Maps

Introduction: Robert Lefant's Voyage, 1542

PART I: TERRA NOVA

ONE: Stories

TWO: Names

THREE: Rhythms

PART II: WATER

FOUR: Islands

FIVE: Frontiers

SIX: Circulations

PART III: WORK

SEVEN: Fishwork

EIGHT: Killing

NINE: Commons

PART IV: FOOD

TEN: Bourgeois

ELEVEN: Eating

TWELVE: Commodities

Conclusion

Appendix A: Cod Names

Appendix B: Sources

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-300-28573-6

9780300285734

OCLC:

1544927163