Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870 Book

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Captain Ahab Had a Wife
1. Nantucket and the Eighteenth-Century Whalefishery
2. Family, Faith, and Community on Colonial Nantucket
3. The Impact of Religious Reform, Revolution, and Romanticism on Nantucket
4. New Bedford and the Nineteenth-Century Whalefishery
5. Love, Marriage, and Family in the Nineteenth-Century Whaling Communities
6. The Failure of Victorian Domesticity on Shore and at Sea
Conclusion: The Nantucket Girls Song
Appendix: Annotated List of Major Informants by Family
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Series List

Maps
The American whaling industry's home region
Major eighteenth-century whaling grounds
Major nineteenth-century whaling grounds