| Description |
xiv, 372 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
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Gender & American culture |
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Gender & American culture.
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| Contents |
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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-355) and index. |
| Subject |
Whaling -- Massachusetts -- New Bedford -- History.
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Women -- Massachusetts -- New Bedford -- Social conditions.
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Nantucket (Mass.) -- Social life and customs.
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| ISBN |
0807825611 alkaline paper |
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0807848700 paperback alkaline paper |
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