The Cod Fisheries, originally published in 1938 and revised and
reissued in 1954, presented a new interpretation of European and
North American history that has since become a classic. With that
rare skill he possessed of weaving together the various strands of
a complex and difficult historical situation, Innis showed how the
exploitation of the cod fisheries from the fifteenth century to the
twentieth has been closely tied up with the whole economic and
political development of Western Europe and North America. The
relationship of the fisheries to the maritime greatness of Britain
and to the growth of New England as an important commercial power
is particularly stressed; and in the examination of the conflicts
growing up about this industry are revealed the forces underlying
the struggle between Britain and France for control of the new
world, and the forces which led to the collapse of thye British
Empire in America and the rise of an independent new world
political power. The political struggles with Nova Scotia and the
long conflict with the United States, continuing far into the
nineteenth century, are examined in careful detail.
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