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Article: Between History and Tomorrow: Making and Breaking Everyday Life in Rural Newfoundland.(Book Review)
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- American Review of Canadian Studies
- Article date:
- September 22, 2004
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Gerald Sider. Between History and Tomorrow: Making and Breaking Everyday Life in Rural Newfoundland. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press, 2003. xviii + 344 pp.
Between History and Tomorrow is an expanded and updated edition of Gerald Sider's Culture and Class in Anthropology and History: A Newfoundland Illustration, in which he addressed the internal logic and effects of merchant capital on the inshore fishery of Newfoundland. The inshore fishery grew and thrived from the middle of the nineteenth century until the end of World War I; it then began a steady decline into failure over the next thirty years. This family-based system was replaced by a factory-based ...