Table of Contents:
  • "White-washed Yankees" : the beginnings of the bait trade, 1790-1854
  • "Intrusion of strangers" : seeking local control in an emerging national context, 1854-1885
  • "A fisherman ought to be a free trader anyway" : the bait trade in diplomatic controversy, 1886-1888
  • "Peaceable settlement" : bait and international law, 1888-1910.