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Breaking the Banks: Representations and Realities in New England Fisheries, 1866-1966 - Couverture souple

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McKenzie, Matthew

 
9781625343918: Breaking the Banks: Representations and Realities in New England Fisheries, 1866-1966
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ISBN 10 : 1625343914 ISBN 13 : 9781625343918
Editeur : University of Massachusetts Press, 2018

Synopsis

With skillful storytelling, Matthew McKenzie weaves together the industrial, cultural, political, and ecological history of New England's fisheries through the story of how the Boston haddock fleet--one of the region's largest and most heavily industrialized--rose, flourished, and then fished itself into near oblivion before the arrival of foreign competition in 1961. This fleet also embodied the industry's change during this period, as it shucked its sail-and-oar, hook-and-line origins to embrace mechanized power and propulsion, more sophisticated business practices, and political engagement.

Books, films, and the media have long portrayed the Yankee fisherman's hard-scrabble existence, as he faced brutal weather on the open seas and unnecessary governmental restrictions. As McKenzie contends, this simplistic view has long betrayed commercial fisheries' sophisticated legislative campaigns in Washington, DC, as they sought federal subsidies and relief and, eventually, fewer constricting regulations. This clash between fisheries' representation and their reality still grips fishing communities today as they struggle to navigate age-old trends of fleet consolidation, stock decline, and intense competition.

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À propos de l'auteur

Matthew McKenzie is associate professor of history and maritime studies at the University of Connecticut and author of Clearing the Coastline: The Nineteenth-Century Ecological and Cultural Transformation of Cape Cod. He currently serves on the New England Fishery Management Council.

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Éditeur
University of Massachusetts Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1625343914
ISBN 13 
9781625343918
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
224
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