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Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870 (Gend
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- ISBN
- 9780807848708
- Book Title
- Captain Ahab Had a Wife : New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- University of North Carolina Press
- Publication Year
- 2000
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Features
- New Edition
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering, History, Social Science
- Topic
- United States / State & Local / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT), Women, United States / State & Local / General, United States / 19th Century, Women's Studies, Customs & Traditions, Fisheries & Aquaculture
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Item Weight
- 5 oz
- Number of Pages
- 392 Pages
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During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the whaling industry in New England sent hundreds of ships and thousands of men to distant seas on voyages lasting up to five years. In Captain Ahab Had a Wife , Lisa Norling taps a rich vein of sources--including women's and men's letters and diaries, shipowners' records, Quaker meeting minutes and other church records, newspapers and magazines, censuses, and city directories--to reconstruct the lives of the "Cape Horn widows" left behind onshore.Norling begins with the emergence of colonial whalefishery on the island of Nantucket and then follows the industry to mainland New Bedford in the nineteenth century, tracking the parallel shift from a patriarchal world to a more ambiguous Victorian culture of domesticity. Through the sea-wives' compelling and often poignant stories, Norling exposes the painful discrepancies between gender ideals and the reality of maritime life and documents the power of gender to shape both economic development and individual experience.
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Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
ISBN-10
0807848700
ISBN-13
9780807848708
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1767762
Product Key Features
Book Title
Captain Ahab Had a Wife : New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
New Edition
Topic
United States / State & Local / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT), Women, United States / State & Local / General, United States / 19th Century, Women's Studies, Customs & Traditions, Fisheries & Aquaculture
Publication Year
2000
Genre
Technology & Engineering, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
392 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
5 oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
99-088026 [Sh]
Edition Description
New Edition
Reviews
This book is required reading . . . for anyone interested in maritime gender systems.International Journal of Maritime History, [This book] gives a larger, more nuanced picture of whaling behind the scenes than anywhere else I know of. American Studies, A signal achievement in American women's and gender history. . . . Scholars will ignore her at their peril. Journal of American History, This book is required reading . . . for anyone interested in maritime gender systems. International Journal of Maritime History, [This book] gives a larger, more nuanced picture of whaling behind the scenes than anywhere else I know of.American Studies
Copyright Date
2000
Lccn
99-088026
Dewey Decimal
338.3/7295/0974485
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
Gender and American Culture Ser.
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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