“By the time the war ended, Iceland was a changed country. Not least among the changes, in 1944 it had negotiated full independence from Denmark. Now it was free to negotiate its own relations with the rest of the world. Because of cod, it had moved in one generation from a fifteenth-century colonial society to a modern postwar nation.” HistoryFoodFishingWorld HistoryFood AnthropologyIcelandCodCod Fish Book:Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World Source: Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World