The largest estuary in the world, the Gulf of St Lawrence is defined broadly by an ecology that stretches from the upper reaches of the St Lawrence River to the Gulf Stream, and by a web of influences that reach from the heart of the continent to northern Europe. For more than a millennium, the gulf's strategic location and rich marine resources have made it a destination and a gateway, a cockpit and a crossroads, and a highway and a home. From Vinland the Good to the novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery, the Gulf has haunted the Western imagination. A transborder collaboration between Canadian and American scholars, The Greater Gulf represents the first concerted exploration of the environmental history--marine and terrestrial--of the Gulf of St Lawrence. Contributors tell many histories of a place that has been fished, fought over, explored, and exploited. The essays' defining themes resonate in today's charged atmosphere of quickening climate change as they recount stories of resilience played against ecological fragility, resistance at odds with accommodation, considered versus reckless exploitation, and real, imagined, and imposed identities. Reconsidering perceptions about borders and the spaces between and across land and sea, The Greater Gulf draws attention to a central place and part of North Atlantic and North American history.--$cProvided by publisher.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2020.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 577.7/344
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9780773559837 9780773559844 9780773558670 0773559833 0773559841
- LCCN
- QH106.2.S25
- LCCN Item number
- G74 2019eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- NLC
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (x, 372 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
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- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)kck00240743 (OCoLC)1117709748 (CaOOCEL)458295
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- NLC
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Copyright 5
- Contents 8
- Tables and Figures 10
- Introduction Environmental History in the Greater Gulf 14
- 1 Reassembling the Greater Gulf 24
- Part One The Gulf as a Contested Geopolitical Space 44
- 2 “Gens sauvages et estranges” 46
- 3 Newfoundland’s West Coast and the Gulf of St Lawrence Fishery, ca. 1755–83 80
- 4 “We have done a great deal of mischief – spread the terror of his Majesty’s Armsthru the whole Gulph” 125
- 5 Environmental Change, War, and Neutrality in Imperial-Indigenous Relations in the Maritime Colonies, 1793–1815 148
- Part Two The Gulf and Its Resources 172
- 6 “The best fishing station” 174
- 7 Shell Games 203
- 8 “Alien concerns” 235
- Part Three The Gulf in Imagination and Identity 270
- 9 Primordial Landscapes, Hardy Folk, and Doomed Aboriginals 272
- 10 “A window looking seaward” 294
- 11 “An ugly, piled-up sea” 330
- Conclusion Glimpses of a Greater Gulf 356
- Contributors 364
- Index 368
