The greater gulf : essays on the environmental history of the Gulf of St. Lawrence / edited by Claire E. Campbell, Edward MacDonald, and Brian Payne.

Includes bibliographies and index.

"The largest estuary in the world, the Gulf of St Lawrence is defined broadly by an ecology that stretches from the upper reaches of the St Lawrence River to the Gulf Stream, and by a web of influences that reach from the heart of the continent to northern Europe. For more than a millennium, the gulf's strategic location and rich marine resources have made it a destination and a gateway, a cockpit and a crossroads, and a highway and a home. From Vinland the Good to the novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery, the Gulf has haunted the Western imagination. A transborder collaboration between Canadian and American scholars, The Greater Gulf represents the first concerted exploration of the environmental history--marine and terrestrial--of the Gulf of St Lawrence. Contributors tell many histories of a place that has been fished, fought over, explored, and exploited. The essays' defining themes resonate in today's charged atmosphere of quickening climate change as they recount stories of resilience played against ecological fragility, resistance at odds with accommodation, considered versus reckless exploitation, and real, imagined, and imposed identities. Reconsidering perceptions about borders and the spaces between and across land and sea, The Greater Gulf draws attention to a central place and part of North Atlantic and North American history."--

Reassembling the Greater Gulf: Northwest Atlantic Environmental History and the Gulf of St. Lawrence System / Matthew McKenzie -- "Gens sauvages et estranges": Amerindians and the Early Fishery in the Sixteenth-Century Gulf of St. Lawrence / Jack Bouchard -- Newfoundland's West Coast and the Gulf of St. Lawrence Fishery, ca. 1755-83: A Case Study of War, Fish, and Empire / Rainer Baehre -- "We have done a great deal of mischief--spread the terror of his Majesty's Arms thru the whole Gulph": The British Strategy of Resource Control during the Seven Years' War in North America,1758-59 / Daniel Soucier -- Environmental Change, War, and Neutrality in Imperial--Indigenous Relations in the Maritime Colonies, 1793-1815 / John G. Reid -- "The Best Fishing Station": The Fish Trade of Prince Edward Island and Resource Transfer in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 1854-1873 / Brian Payne -- Shell Games: The Marine Commons, Economic Policy, and Oyster Culture in Prince Edward Island, 1865-1928 / Edward MacDonald -- "Alien Concerns": American Canners in the Gulf of St. Lawrence Lobster Fishery, 1870-1914 / Suzanne Morton -- Primordial Landscapes, Hardy Folk, and Doomed Aboriginals: The Gulf of St. Lawrence in the Eyes of Nineteenth-Century American Travel Writers / J.I. Little -- "A window looking seaward": Finding Environmental History in the Writing of L.M. Montgomery / Claire Campbell -- "An ugly, piled-up sea": Industrialization and Regional Identity in W. Albert Hickman's Gulf of St. Lawrence Fiction / Caitlin Charman -- Conclusion: Glimpses of a Greater Gulf / Claire Campbell, Edward MacDonald, and Brian Payne.

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