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SUMMARY:The North Atlantic Fish Revolution - a Distant Mirror of Climate C
 hange and Globalisation - Poul Holm (Trinity College Dublin)
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DESCRIPTION:Cabot’s discovery in 1497 of abundant cod populations around
  Newfoundland had fundamental geopolitical implications. Through the sixte
 enth century\, marine products were among the first foodstuffs to be expos
 ed to globalising processes while climate change (the Little Ice Age) impa
 cted ocean productivity. The fish revolution changed the human landscapes 
 around the North Atlantic. I explore three questions: (1) what were the na
 tural and economic causes of the fish revolution\; (2) how did marginal so
 cieties adapt to changes in international trade and consumption patterns a
 round the North Atlantic\; and (3) how did consumers\, investors\, and pol
 itics in the major European countries perceive and respond to the fish rev
 olution? The answers may help us understand the role of environment and cl
 imate change in the past\, how markets impacted marginal communities\, and
  how humans perceived long-term change.
LOCATION:History Faculty Room 9
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