Regime Change in a Resource Economy: The Politics of Underdevelopment in Newfoundland Since 1825

Regime Change in a Resource Economy: The Politics of Underdevelopment in Newfoundland Since 1825
ISBN-10
1550810936
ISBN-13
9781550810936
Category
Reference / General
Pages
284
Language
English
Published
1994
Publisher
Breakwater
Author
Valerie A. Summers

Description

This political survey of Newfoundland economy explores the connections between a resource economy and transformations in political regime from the nineteenth century to the present. Among the themes examined are the gradual economic and eventual political elites in Newfoundland prior to the federation of the two countries; the exploitation of staples particularly codfish, and the emergence of new staples in the early twentieth century and the association of a staple economy with fundamental changes in state structures. The contemporary disaster of depleted resource economy and its portents for regime change in the context of fragile Canadian federalism are considered.

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