A History Of Newfoundland, From The English, Colonial, And Foreign Records

Empire, cod, and cold Atlantic seas: few places reveal the making of British North America as vividly as Newfoundland. The sea shapes everything here. Drawing on English, colonial, and foreign records, D. W. Prowse traces how a hard-edged maritime society grew at the far edge of the British colonial empire. From early voyages of maritime exploration and settlement through centuries of conflict over the North Atlantic fisheries, he follows fishermen, merchants, governors, soldiers, and clergy as they carve out a life between Europe and North America. At once a classic Canadian history book and a definitive study of colonial Newfoundland history, it places this small island at the centre of Atlantic Canada and the wider Atlantic world. Built as a primary source historical study, grounded in dispatches, court papers, and local testimony, Prowse's work offers insight into law, religion, politics, and trade across the Atlantic Canada colonial era. It remains essential for history students and researchers, for anyone interested in north Atlantic fisheries history, British North America history, or Atlantic world maritime studies, and as a dependable genealogy and local history reference for families rooted in Newfoundland's harbours and outports. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, it has been restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure, this definitive account of pre Confederation Newfoundland history speaks to general readers, scholars of the British colonial empire, and collectors of classic works on maritime exploration and settlement.