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The Liberty to Take Fish: Atlantic Fisheries and Federal Power in Nineteenth-Century America Hardcover – August 15, 2023
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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.
The American Revolution left the United States with the "liberty to take fish" from the waters of the North Atlantic. Indispensable to the economic health of the new nation, the cod fisheries of the Grand Banks, the Bay of Fundy, and the Gulf of St. Lawrence quickly became symbols of American independence in an Atlantic world dominated by Great Britain.
The fisheries issue was a near-constant concern in American statecraft that impinged upon everything, from Anglo-American relations, to the operation of American federalism, and even to the nature of the marine environment. Earle explores the relationship between the fisheries and the state through the Civil War era when closer ties between the United States and Great Britain finally surpassed the contentious interests of the fishing industry on the nation's agenda.
The Liberty to Take Fish is a rich story that moves from the staterooms of Washington and London to the decks of fishing schooners and into the Atlantic itself to understand how ordinary fishermen and the fish they pursued shaped and were, in turn, shaped by those far-off political and economic forces. Earle returns fishing to its once-central place in American history and shows that the nation of the nineteenth century was indeed a maritime one.
- Print length294 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherCornell University Press
- Publication dateAugust 15, 2023
- Dimensions6 x 1.06 x 9 inches
- ISBN-101501768921
- ISBN-13978-1501768927
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In The Liberty to Take Fish Thomas Earle skillfully incorporates fishermen into our cast of diplomatic characters responsible for the conduct of foreign relations, bringing to life the role of nonstate actors in shaping international diplomacy and state-making.
-- Brian Rouleau, Texas A&M University, author of With Sails Whitening Every SeaEngaging and original, Liberty to Take Fish illuminates the importance of fisheries to the 'large narrative' of US-British relations. A compelling tale of how fishermen became enmeshed in the nationalist mythologizing of nineteenth century America.
-- David Sim, University College London, author of A Union ForeverThe Liberty to Take Fish illumines how disputes over haddock, lobster, and sardines became disagreements about statecraft, environmental extraction, and fisher's rights. Thomas Blake Earle engrossingly makes fish and the people who caught them into actors in American foreign relations.
-- Rachel B. Herrmann, Cardiff University, author of No Useless MouthReview
The Liberty to Take Fish illumines how disputes over haddock, lobster, and sardines became disagreements about statecraft, environmental extraction, and fisher's rights. Thomas Blake Earle engrossingly makes fish and the people who caught them into actors in American foreign relations.
-- Rachel B. Herrmann, Cardiff University, author of No Useless MouthAbout the Author
Thomas Blake Earle is Assistant Professor of History at Texas A&M University at Galveston. He is is coeditor of Atlantic Environments and the American South.
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- Publisher : Cornell University Press (August 15, 2023)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 294 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1501768921
- ISBN-13 : 978-1501768927
- Item Weight : 1.29 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 1.06 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,251,738 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,420 in Maritime History & Piracy (Books)
- #3,660 in Biology of Wildlife
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