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...
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Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870 by Norling, Lisa

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

$673.91

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

$673.91
Author: Lisa Norling
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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 sources--including women's and men's letters and diaries, shipowners' records, Quaker meeting minutes and other church records, newspapers and magazines, censuses, and city directories--to reconstruct the lives of the "Cape Horn widows" left behind onshore.

Norling begins with the emergence of colonial whalefishery on the island of Nantucket and then follows the industry to mainland New Bedford in the nineteenth century, tracking the parallel shift from a patriarchal world to a more ambiguous Victorian culture of domesticity. Through the sea-wives' compelling and often poignant stories, Norling exposes the painful discrepancies between gender ideals and the reality of maritime life and documents the power of gender to shape both economic development and individual experience.



Author: Lisa Norling
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 10/16/2000
Pages: 392
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.22w x 0.92d
ISBN: 9780807848708


Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2001 pg. 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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