Cod Fisheries: The History of an International Economy

by Harold A. Innis

Book Overview

The Cod Fisheries, originally published in 1938 and revised and reissued in 1954, presented a new interpretation of European and North American history that has since become a classic. With that rare skill he possessed of weaving together the various strands of a complex and difficult historical situation, Innis showed how the exploitation of the cod fisheries from the fifteenth century to the twentieth has been closely tied up with the whole economic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802063446
• ISBN13: 9780802063441
• Release Date: September 1978
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 522 Pages
• Weight: 1.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"