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Eighteenth century Newfoundland : a geographer's perspective / C. Grant Head.

Title
Eighteenth century Newfoundland : a geographer's perspective / C. Grant Head.
Author
Head, C. Grant, 1939-
Publication
Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, c1976.

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Description
xiv, 296 p. : ill.; 18 cm.
Series Statement
The Carleton library ; no. 99
Uniform Title
The Carleton library ; no. 99.
Subject
  • 1700-1799
  • Civilization, Modern > 18th century
  • Newfoundland > Historical geography
Genre/Form
History
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. [259]-280.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Pt. 1. The late seventeenth century -- 1. The fishery at Newfoundland -- 2. A question of year-round habitation -- Pt. 2. 1675-1775 -- 3. The narrative, 1675-1775 -- 4. Resource exploitation -- 5. The resident population -- 6. Supplies -- Pt. 3. Newfoundland in the 1760s and early 1770s -- 7. Newfoundland in the 1760s and early 1770s -- Pt. 4. 1775-1820 -- 8. Impact of the American Revolutionary War -- 9. Interwar expansion and collapse -- 10. Rise of the residents and new pressure on resources -- 11. Newfoundland in the early Nineteenth Century -- General conclusion.
ISBN
0771097999
LCCN
^^^76374685^
OCLC
  • 2595650
  • SCSB-10504715
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library