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In Pursuit of Leviathan: Technological innovation, Establishments, Productivity, and Earnings in American Whaling, 1816-1906

University Of Chicago Press 1 edition | June 8, 1997 | ISBN-10: 0226137899 | 557 pages | PDF | 32.3 Mb

In Pursuit of Leviathan traces the American whaling market from its rise in the 1840s to its precipitous drop at the finish of the nineteenth century. Employing thorough and extensive information that identify much more than four thousand whaling voyages from New Bedford, Massachusetts, the major nineteenth-century whaling port, the authors investigate the market for whale merchandise, crew high quality and labor contracts, and whale biology and distribution, and evaluate the productivity of the American fleet. They then examine new whaling methods created at the conclude of the nineteenth century, such as modified clippers and harpoons, and the introduction of darting guns. Regardless of the common notion that the whaling industry declined due to a fall in whale shares, the authors argue that the industrys collapse was related to modifications in engineering and industry conditions.

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