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Peter Pope

Cloth ISBN 0-8078-2910-2 $59.95
Paper ISBN 0-8078-5576-6 $24.95

Copyright 2004 by The University of North Carolina Press

An Award-Winning Book

  John Lyman Book Award in Canadian Naval and Maritime History, North American Society for Oceanic History (2004)

  Clio Award, Atlantic Canada Region, Canadian Historical Association (2005)

  Honorable Mention, Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, Canadian Historical Association (2005)

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“Read a 450-page book on the growth of the Newfoundland fisheries? Yes! Peter Pope brings to light how red wine, a commodity not usually associated with the fruits of the sea, helped cod become one of the stars of the Atlantic world.”

“A nuanced reconstruction of the intersecting worlds of those who worked the Newfoundland fisheries and those who profited from their labor. Pope succeeds gloriously…, deploying insights from archaeologists, anthropologists, and economists whenever the documentary sources are unwilling to divulge their secrets.”

“Fish into Wine is a triumph of scholarship, of data-discovery, and of insightful description. Understanding the early history of Newfoundland now begins here as should a rethinking of a concept of culture whose final flourish may well be organizing the perspective that produced this truly excellent book.”

“This is socioeconomic history at its imaginative and scrupulous best. Peter Pope unsettles many hackneyed claims about Newfoundland’s seventeenth-century past by combining exuberant mastery of local detail with large-scale insights into early modern transatlantic capitalism.“