JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE ATLANTIC REGION AUTUMN 1999

A C A D I E N S I S

REVUE D’HISTOIRE DE LA RÉGION ATLANTIQUE AUTOMNE 1999

Editor/Directeur

DAVID FRANK

Secretary/Secrétaire

BECKEY DANIEL

Assistant Editor

RUSTY BITTERMANN

French Language Editor

JACQUES PAUL COUTURIER

Editorial Board/Comité de rédaction

T.W. ACHESON

MARGARET McCALLUM

SHEILA ANDREW

ELIZABETH McGAHAN

PATRICIA BELIER

STEPHEN PATTERSON

D.G. BELL

SCOTT SEE

MARION BEYEA

WILLIAM SPRAY

GAIL CAMPBELL

ERIC. L. SWANICK

GREGG FINLEY

D.G. THOMPSON

E.R. FORBES

PETER TONER

BURTON GLENDENNING

D.M. YOUNG

Advisory Board/Comité consultatif

GEORGE MACBEATH

J. MURRAY BECK

COLIN B. MACKAY

FRANCIS W.P. BOLGER

R.A. MACLEAN

J.M.S. CARELESS

D.A. MUISE

THOMAS J. CONDON

JOHN G. REID

MARGARET CONRAD

ERIC SAGER

JEAN DAIGLE

G.F.G. STANLEY

GWENDOLYN DAVIES

ALICE R. STEWART

JUDITH FINGARD

PETER B. WAITE

JAMES HILLER

GRAEME WYNN

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Articles in Acadiensis are indexed in/Les articles sont répertoirés dans: Canadian Periodical Index, America: History of Life, Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Current Contents/Arts and Humanities, IBZ (International Bibliography of Periodical Literature), International Current Awareness Services, Canadian Magazine Index and available on-line in the Canadian Business and Current Affairs Database.

ACADIENSIS

VOL. XXIX, NO. 1 AUTUMN/AUTOMNE 1999

DANNY SAMSON Industrial Colonization: The Colonial Context of the General Mining Association, Nova Scotia, 1825-1842

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LUCA CODIGNOLA Another Look at Verrazzano’s Voyage, 1524 29

KATHRYN CARTER An Economy of Words: Emma Chadwick Stretch’s Account Book Diary, 1859-1860

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DEREK JOHNSON Merchants, the State and the Household: Continuity and Change in a 20th-Century Acadian Fishing Village 57

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BARRY CAHILL The Black Loyalist Myth in Atlantic Canada 76 JAMES WALKER Myth, History and Revisionism:

The Black Loyalists Revisited 88

REVIEW ESSAYS/NOTES CRITIQUES

COLIN D. HOWELL Two Outs; Or, Yogi Berra, Sport and Maritime Historiography ........................... 106 JAMES L. KENNY Political Culture in Fin-de-Siècle Atlantic Canada ................................................ 122 BARBARA KELCEY The Spell of the North ............................................................................................ 138 MARILYN GERRIETS Economics and History: Old Texts and New Approaches ..................................... 146 SERGE CÔTÉ Une Acadie inquiète ............................................................................................... 157

BIBLIOGRAPHY/BIBLIOGRAPHIE

Recent Publications Relating to the History of the Atlantic Region ..................... 195