Terra Nova 'Food, Water, and Work in an Early Atlantic World'

Terra Nova 'Food, Water, and Work in an Early Atlantic World'

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Terra Nova 'Food, Water, and Work in an Early Atlantic World'

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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.
Long before there was Newfoundland or Canada, Europeans
called this floating colony Terra Nova, and they laid the
foundation for a history of extracting food and fuel that extended
into the twentieth century. Once one of the largest European
colonies in the Atlantic basin, Terra Nova has never before been
considered in its historical entirety or in a wider Atlantic context.
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.

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PVP. 23,00€

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