Twentieth-century Newfoundland: Explorations

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James Hiller, Peter Neary
Breakwater Books, 1994 - History - 373 pages
Twentieth Century Newfoundland: Explorations brings together ten papers by eight well-known historians of Newfoundland and Labrador. The papers address a wide variety of subject matter and open many avenues for further research. The book concludes with an extensive bibliography on the Newfoundland and Labrador in the Twentieth century. This bibliography is organized by topic and will serve the needs of the general reader and specialists alike. Twentieth Century Newfoundland: Explorations highlight the scope and complexity of present day writing about the history of Newfoundland and Labrador. James Hiller, Professor of History at Memorial University and author of a number of articles on Newfoundland in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Peter Neary, Professor of History at the University of Weste Ontario and the author of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic World, 1929-1949(1998).
 

Contents

Preface
9
Luring Americans
47
the Political
79
The Commission of Governments Land Settlement
123
Newfoundlands
153
the Impact of the United States
179
the Fisheries
239
The Interplay of Private and Public Enterprise in
273
the 197172 Newfoundland Example
297
Bibliography
321
Index 375
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Peter Neary, Professor of History at the University of Western Ontario and the author of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic World, 1929-1949.

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