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Ireland's Sea Fisheries, 1400-1600
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Description
It combines a wide range of historical sources with innovative digital research methods to provide a comprehensive and systematic overview. Government letters and court documents highlight the diverse range of fishing fleets from across Europe that visited Irish waters in the early sixteenth century, bringing wealth and cultural influence to the native Irish, who developed complex systems to protect and tax the visitors. Furthermore, trade records illustrate that fish was Ireland's premier export in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. However, a range of factors led to the industry's collapse by the end of the sixteenth century: the Tudor conquest which disrupted fishing operations and fundamentally altered who controlled fishing resources; the destabilization of Irish waters resulting from the terrestrial conflict, which allowed pirates to thrive; an influx of cheap cod from the newly exploited fisheries in Newfoundland which changed consumption patterns in Ireland and across Europe; and shifting climatic conditions and decades of over-exploitation which meant fewer fish and poorer catches. Overall, the book reveals that fisheries form a vital part of the broader environmental, political, and economic history of Ireland.
Product details
- Number of Pages:
- 332
- Release Date:
- 2023-12-12
- Publication Date:
- 2023-12-12
- Publisher:
- Boydell Press
- Languages:
- Original: English
- ISBN10:
- 1783277068
- ISBN13:
- 9781783277063
- GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
- [email protected]
- Weight:
- 663 g
- Height:
- 16.1 cm
- Width:
- 24 cm
- Thickness:
- 2.2 cm
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