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

Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870
Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870, 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 <i>Captain Ahab Had a Wife</i>, Lisa Norling taps a rich vein of source, Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870 has a rating of 4 stars
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Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870, 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 source, Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870
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  • Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870
  • Written by author Lisa Norling
  • Published by University of North Carolina Press, The, October 2000
  • 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 source
  • A social history that uncovers the lives of maritime women in New England villages whose men were whalers during the 18th and 19th centuries. Norling draws from a variety of sources—including women's and men's letters and diaries, shipowners' records
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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


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