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SUMMARY:Properties of Empire: Contests over the Commons on Newfoundland’
 s French Shore\, 1763-1783 - Arianne Sedef Urus (Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Dr AM Price
DESCRIPTION:France ceded territorial claims to Newfoundland to Britain in 
 the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht\, but French fishermen retained rights to opera
 te seasonal cod fisheries along a stretch of coastline known as the French
  Shore. The treaty was one of several laws formalizing the property regime
  based on the commons that emerged among European fishermen in the sixteen
 th and seventeenth centuries. Several demographic and geopolitical changes
  converged after the Seven Years’ War (1756-63) to raise the question of
  whether French fishing rights on the French Shore were exclusive or concu
 rrent with British fishing rights on that coast. Treaty and customary law 
 seemed at odds on this question\, forcing fishermen\, merchants\, naval of
 ficers\, and ministers to articulate what constituted property and how pro
 perty should be conceived if an inter-imperial commons were to work. The c
 onflicts that transpired highlighted how they answered these questions dif
 ferently. Agents of the state tended to promote the commons while British 
 subjects tried to create a real property regime from below. Disputes over 
 real property formation on the French Shore show another dimension of the 
 early modern enclosure process\, demonstrating both the role of the common
 s in empire and the challenges of resource management in an inter-imperial
  space. 
LOCATION:Seminar Room 3\, Cripps Court\, Magdalene College
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