| Description |
1 online resource (566 pages) |
| Series |
National Bureau of Economic Research Series on Long-Term Factors in Economic Development |
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National Bureau of Economic Research Series on Long-Term Factors in Economic Development
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| Contents |
In Pursuit of Leviathan; Contents; Preface; 1. In Prospect; 2. Whales and Whaling; 3. Data Sets and Sources; 4. Natural Resources; 5. Labor; 6. Capital; 7. Technology; 8. Productivity; 9. Product Markets; 10. Agents, Captains, and Owners; 11. Profits; 12. The Americans Replace the British; 13. Modern Whaling; 14. In Retrospect; References; Name Index; Subject Index |
| Summary |
In Pursuit of Leviathan traces the American whaling industry from its rise in the 1840s to its precipitous fall at the end of the nineteenth century. Using detailed and comprehensive data that describe more than four thousand whaling voyages from New Bedford, Massachusetts, the leading nineteenth-century whaling port, the authors explore the market for whale products, crew quality and labor contracts, and whale biology and distribution, and assess the productivity of the American fleet. They then examine new whaling techniques developed at the end of the nineteenth century, such as modified cl |
| Analysis |
whaling, history, economics, voyages, new bedford, massachusetts, ports, labor, products, commerce, innovation, whale biology, productivity, technology, clippers, harpoons, darting guns, nonfiction, profits, blubber, ambergris, market forces, crew, sailors, fleet, 19th century, antebellum, eastern seaboard, natural resources, capital |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 523-538) and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Whaling -- Economic aspects -- United States
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Whaling -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Whaling
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Whaling -- Economic aspects
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gallman, Robert E
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Gleiter, Karin
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| LC no. |
96021263 |
| ISBN |
9780226137902 |
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0226137902 |
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9786611223281 |
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6611223282 |
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