Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870UNC Press Books, 2014 M02 1 - 392 páginas 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. |
Contenido
Nantucket and the EighteenthCentury Whalefishery | 15 |
The Manner of Catching Whales ca 1744 | 22 |
Waste book of Nantucket merchant Micajah Coffin | 31 |
Family Faith and Community on Colonial Nantucket | 51 |
Portrait of Mrs Judith Macy ca 1799 | 71 |
The Impact of Religious Reform Revolution and Romanticism | 83 |
New Bedford ca 1805 | 95 |
New Bedford and the NineteenthCentury Whalefishery | 117 |
Love Marriage and Family in the NineteenthCentury | 165 |
Miniature portrait of Captain Thomas Burdett | 187 |
The Failure of Victorian Domesticity on Shore and at Sea | 214 |
Interior Charles W Morgan aftercabin 1925 | 245 |
The Nantucket Girls Song | 262 |
Captains of the Stone Fleet 1861 | 266 |
Annotated List of Major Informants by Family | 271 |
Notes | 281 |
New Bedfords commercial district ca 1870 | 129 |
South Sea Whale Fishery No I 1835 | 136 |
Bibliography | 329 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women & the Whalefishery, 1720-1870 Lisa Norling Vista previa limitada - 2000 |
Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870 Lisa Norling Vista previa limitada - 2014 |
Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women & the Whalefishery, 1720-1870 Lisa Norling Vista de fragmentos - 2000 |
Términos y frases comunes
Acushnet American Whale Ashley Bedford Whaling Museum Braley Bristol County brother Byers Caleb Cape Horn Captain Caroline Gifford century Charles Charles Peirce colonial Creighton Crevecoeur crew Dartmouth daughter dear diary domestic England entries Family Papers father female fishery Folder Friends Gardner gender Hannah Harriet Allen historian household husband Ibid industry island James John Judith Leach and Gow letter live Logbook Lydia Macy Macy’s mariners maritime women marriage married Martha Martha’s Vineyard Mary Brewster Mass Mattapoisett men’s merchant Moby-Dick month monthly meeting mother Nabby Nation of Nantucket ODHS parents Peirce Phebe Philip Howland port private collection Quaker quoted recorded relationship romantic romantic love Russell Ruth sailors Samuel Sarah sea journal seafaring seamen ship shore sister Society Spooner Starbuck Subseries Susan Sylvia Leonard Taber tucket Vital Records whalefishery whalemen wife William William Loring wives women’s meeting wrote young