| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.2

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Book Review

Fish into Wine: The Newfoundland Plantation in the Seventeenth Century. By Peter E. Pope. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xxx, 463 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8078-2910-2. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-80785576-6.)

At the end of the sixteenth century, Peter E. Pope reminds us in Fish into Wine, "European commercial activity in Atlantic Canada exceeded, in volume and value, European trade with the Gulf of Mexico." Cod constituted a significant portion of that commerce, and the growth of the fishery facilitated trade in other goods as well. In the seventeenth century dried fish became a major English export to the Mediterranean, giving the English the foreign exchange they needed to import Spanish wine, which helped to reorient the direction of commerce in Europe.

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