Hope and Deception in Conception Bay
In late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century Newfoundland, the evolution to colonial self-government within the empire was accompanied by an economic transition from a migratory to a residential fishery. This was the beginning of the modern liberal order for Newfoundland.
The standard view is that the truck system, wherein merchants supplied fishing families with provisions, gear, and so on, aga...
In late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century Newfoundland, the evolution to colonial self-government within the empire was accompanied by an economic transition from a migratory to a residential fishery. This was the beginning of the modern liberal order for Newfoundland.
The standard view is that the truck system, wherein merchants supplied fishing families with provisions, gear, and so on, aga...
