The cod trade in early-modern Portugal : deregulation, English domination, and the decline of female cod merchants
This study analyzes the extent of Portuguese participation in the early cod fishery off Newfoundland and concludes that Portugal's role in the fishery was intermittent. Evidence shows that the Portuguese were not great cod fishers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The best archival do...
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ftmemorialuniv:oai:research.library.mun.ca:1445 2023-10-01T03:57:37+02:00 The cod trade in early-modern Portugal : deregulation, English domination, and the decline of female cod merchants Abreu-Ferreira, Darlene 1995 application/pdf https://research.library.mun.ca/1445/ https://research.library.mun.ca/1445/1/Abreu-Ferreira_Darlene.pdf https://research.library.mun.ca/1445/3/Abreu-Ferreira_Darlene.pdf en eng Memorial University of Newfoundland https://research.library.mun.ca/1445/1/Abreu-Ferreira_Darlene.pdf https://research.library.mun.ca/1445/3/Abreu-Ferreira_Darlene.pdf Abreu-Ferreira, Darlene <https://research.library.mun.ca/view/creator_az/Abreu-Ferreira=3ADarlene=3A=3A.html> (1995) The cod trade in early-modern Portugal : deregulation, English domination, and the decline of female cod merchants. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland. thesis_license Thesis NonPeerReviewed 1995 ftmemorialuniv 2023-09-03T06:44:25Z This study analyzes the extent of Portuguese participation in the early cod fishery off Newfoundland and concludes that Portugal's role in the fishery was intermittent. Evidence shows that the Portuguese were not great cod fishers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The best archival documentation found in Portugal is for the seventeenth century and it shows the English and French supplying the Portuguese with most cod entering Portugal's harbours. -- Toward the second half of the seventeenth century the English monopoly of the cod trade in Portugal was entrenched. In order to accommodate the influx of a foreign merchant community, Portuguese authorities had to deregulate the structure of their regional economy. Consequently, a previously-protected native merchant class was displaced by foreigners. In the cod trade, many of these cod merchants who were supplanted by foreign interlopers were women. In certain coastal towns in northern Portugal women were big cod merchants but their number and the volume of cod they merchandised decreased substantially in the second half of the seventeenth century. Thesis Newfoundland Memorial University of Newfoundland: Research Repository |
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This study analyzes the extent of Portuguese participation in the early cod fishery off Newfoundland and concludes that Portugal's role in the fishery was intermittent. Evidence shows that the Portuguese were not great cod fishers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The best archival documentation found in Portugal is for the seventeenth century and it shows the English and French supplying the Portuguese with most cod entering Portugal's harbours. -- Toward the second half of the seventeenth century the English monopoly of the cod trade in Portugal was entrenched. In order to accommodate the influx of a foreign merchant community, Portuguese authorities had to deregulate the structure of their regional economy. Consequently, a previously-protected native merchant class was displaced by foreigners. In the cod trade, many of these cod merchants who were supplanted by foreign interlopers were women. In certain coastal towns in northern Portugal women were big cod merchants but their number and the volume of cod they merchandised decreased substantially in the second half of the seventeenth century. |
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The cod trade in early-modern Portugal : deregulation, English domination, and the decline of female cod merchants |
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The cod trade in early-modern Portugal : deregulation, English domination, and the decline of female cod merchants |
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The cod trade in early-modern Portugal : deregulation, English domination, and the decline of female cod merchants |
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The cod trade in early-modern Portugal : deregulation, English domination, and the decline of female cod merchants |
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The cod trade in early-modern Portugal : deregulation, English domination, and the decline of female cod merchants |
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cod trade in early-modern portugal : deregulation, english domination, and the decline of female cod merchants |
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Memorial University of Newfoundland |
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https://research.library.mun.ca/1445/1/Abreu-Ferreira_Darlene.pdf https://research.library.mun.ca/1445/3/Abreu-Ferreira_Darlene.pdf Abreu-Ferreira, Darlene <https://research.library.mun.ca/view/creator_az/Abreu-Ferreira=3ADarlene=3A=3A.html> (1995) The cod trade in early-modern Portugal : deregulation, English domination, and the decline of female cod merchants. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland. |
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