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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 Paperback - 2000

by Norling, Lisa

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  • Title Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870
  • Author Norling, Lisa
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st
  • Condition New
  • Pages 392
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA PR, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A.
  • Date 2000-10-16
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ING9780807848708
  • ISBN 9780807848708 / 0807848700
  • Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.26 x 6.22 x 0.92 in (23.52 x 15.80 x 2.34 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Cultural Region: New England
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Whaling - Massachusetts - New Bedford -, Women - Massachusetts - New Bedford - Social
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99088026
  • Dewey Decimal Code 338.372

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From the jacket flap

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, church records, newspapers and magazines, censuses, and city directories to uncover the women's often poignant and painful stories.

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Citations

  • Choice, 02/01/2001, Page 1140

About the author

Lisa Norling, associate professor of history at the University of Minnesota, is coeditor of "Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700-1920."

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