Select Bibliography: Government, 1730-1815

Anon. A Report of Certain Proceedings of the Inhabitants of the Town of Saint John, in the Island of Newfoundland, with the view to obtain a REFORM of the LAWS, more particularly in the mode of their administration, and an INDEPENDENT LEGISLATURE. St. John's: Printed by Lewis Ryan, 1821.

Anon. Observations on the Present State of Newfoundland in Reference to its Courts of Justice, Local Government and Trade, in a letter addressed to the Right Honourable Henry Earl Bathurst. London: Printed by A. Hancock, 1823.

Alexander, David. "Newfoundland's Traditional Economy and Development to 1934." Newfoundland in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Essays in Interpretation. Ed. James Hiller and Peter Neary. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980. 17-39. Print.

Anspach, Lewis Amadeus. A History of the Island of Newfoundland. London: Printed for the Author, 1819.

"Anspach, Rev. Lewis Amadeus." Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador. Vols. 1-5. St. John's: Newfoundland Book Publishers, 1981-1994. Print.

Baker, Melvin. "Sectarianism, Patronage, and the Age of Harmony, 1815-1848." Dr. Mel Baker's Homepage. Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1994. Web. Apr. 2009.

Bannister, Jerry. The Rule of the Admirals: Law, Custom and Naval Government in Newfoundland, 1699-1832. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. Print.

---. "The Fishing Admirals in Eighteenth-Century Newfoundland." Newfoundland Studies 17.2 (2001): 166-219. Print.

---. "The Naval State in Newfoundland, 1749-1791." Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 11.1 (2000): 17-50. Print.

---. "The Custom of the Country: Justice and the Colonial State in Eighteenth-Century Newfoundland." Ph.D. Thesis, University of Toronto, 1999. Print.

---. "Surgeons and Criminal Justice in Eighteenth-Century Newfoundland," in Greg T. Smith, Allyson N. May & Simon Devereaux, eds., Criminal Justice in the Old World and the New: Essays in Honour of J.M. Beattie. Toronto: Centre of Criminology, 1998.

---. "Convict Transportation and the Colonial State in Newfoundland, 1789." Acadiensis 27.2 (1998): 95-123. Print.

---. "The Campaign for Representative Government in Newfoundland." Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 5.1 (1994): 19-40. Print.

Buchanan, Archibald. "Concerning Landed Property in Newfoundland." London: unpublished treatise, 1786. (British Library, Liverpool Papers, Add MS 38347).

Cadigan, Sean T. Newfoundland and Labrador: A History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. Print.

---. Hope and Deception in Conception Bay. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995. Print.

---. "Whipping them into Shape: State Refinement of Patriarchy among Conception Bay Fishing Families, 1787-1825," in C. McGrath, B. Neis, and M. Porter, eds. Their Lives and Times: Women in Newfoundland and Labrador: A Collage. St. John's: Killick Press, 1995.

---. "The Staple Model Reconsidered: The Case of Agricultural Policy in Northeast Newfoundland, 1785-1855." Acadiensis 21.2 (1992): 48-71. Print.

Carlson, Terry. "Dealing with Offenders: An Historical Perspective," in Gail Burford, ed., Ties that Bind: An Anthology of Social Welfare in Newfoundland and Labrador. St. John's: Jesperson Press, 1997.

Carson, William. "Distress in Newfoundland." Letter to the editor published in the Colonial Journal III (1817).

Carson, William. Reasons for Colonizing Newfoundland. Greenock: Printed by W. Scott, 1813.

Carson, William. A Letter to the Members of Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, on the Address of the Merchants and Inhabitants of St. John's in the Island of Newfoundland to the Prince Regent. Greenock: Printed by William Scott, 1812.

"Economy." Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador. Vols. 1-5. St. John's: Newfoundland Book Publishers, 1981-1994. Print.

English, Christopher. "From Fishing Schooner to Colony: The Legal Development of Newfoundland, 1791-1832." Law, Society, and the State: Essays in Modern Legal History. Ed. S. Binnie and L. Knafla. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995. 73-98. Print.

---. "Newfoundland's Early Laws and Legal Institutions: From Fishing Admirals to the Supreme Court of Judicature, 1790-92." Manitoba Law Journal 23 (1996): 55-78. Print.

"Government." Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador. Vols. 1-5. St. John's: Newfoundland Book Publishers, 1981-1994. Print.

Greene, John P. Between Damnation and Starvation: Priests and Merchants in Newfoundland Politics, 1745-1855. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999. Print.

Handcock, W. Gordon. Soe Longe as There Comes noe Women: Origins of English Settlement in Newfoundland. St. John's: Breakwater, 1989.

Head, Grant. Eighteenth Century Newfoundland. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1976.

Janzen, Olaf. "Newfoundland and the International Fishery," in M. Brook Taylor, ed., Canadian History, A Reader's Guide, Volume One: Beginnings to Confederation. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994.

"Judiciary." Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador. Vols. 1-5. St. John's: Newfoundland Book Publishers, 1981-1994. Print.

Kerr, Wilfred B. "Newfoundland in the Period before the American Revolution." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 65.1 (1941): 56-78. Print.

"Lundrigan, James." Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador. Vols. 1-5. St. John's: Newfoundland Book Publishers, 1981-1994. Print.

Mannion, John J. "Introduction." The Peopling of Newfoundland: Essays in Historical Geography. Ed. John J. Mannion. St. John's: ISER, 1977. 1-12. Print.

Matthews, Keith. Lectures on the History of Newfoundland: 1500-1830. St. John's: Breakwater, 1988. Print.

Matthews, Keith. "Historical Fence Building: A Critique of the Historiography of Newfoundland," Newfoundland Quarterly 9 (Spring 1978).

McLintock, A.H. The Establishment of Constitutional Government in Newfoundland, 1783-1832: A Study of Retarded Colonization. London: Longmans, Green, 1941.

Mercer, Keith. "The Murder of Lieutenant Lawry: A Case Study of British Naval Impressment in Newfoundland, 1794." Newfoundland and Labrador Studies 21.2 (2006): 255-289. Print.

"Morris, Patrick." Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador. Vols. 1-5. St. John's: Newfoundland Book Publishers, 1981-1994. Print.

O'Flaherty, Patrick. Old Newfoundland: A History to 1843. St. John's: Long Beach Press, 1999. Print.

---. "The Seeds of Reform: Newfoundland, 1800-1818." Journal of Canadian Studies 23.3 (1988): 39-59. Print.

Prowse, D.W. A History of Newfoundland. 1895. Portugal Cove - St. Philip's: Boulder Publications, Ltd., 2002. Print.

Reeves, John. History of the Government of the Island of Newfoundland. New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1967 reprint of 1793 edition.

Rowe, Frederick W. A History of Newfoundland and Labrador. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1980. Print.

Ryan, Shannon. Fish Out of Water: The Newfoundland Saltfish Trade 1814-1914. St. John's: Breakwater, 1986. Print.

"Schools." Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador. Vols. 1-5. St. John's: Newfoundland Book Publishers, 1981-1994. Print.

Smallwood, Joseph R. Dr. William Carson: The Great Newfoundland Reformer: His Life, Letters and Speeches. St. John's: Newfoundland Book Publishers, 1967. Print.