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- catalog abstract ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11843627.
- catalog coverage "Nantucket (Mass.) Social life and customs 18th century.".
- catalog coverage "Nantucket (Mass.) Social life and customs.".
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""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."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-355) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 372 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Captain Ahab had a wife.".
- catalog identifier "0807825611 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0807848700 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Captain Ahab had a wife.".
- catalog isPartOf "Gender & American culture".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,".
- catalog relation "Captain Ahab had a wife.".
- catalog spatial "Massachusetts New Bedford".
- catalog spatial "Massachusetts.".
- catalog spatial "Nantucket (Mass.) Social life and customs 18th century.".
- catalog spatial "Nantucket (Mass.) Social life and customs.".
- catalog subject "338.3/7295/0974485 21".
- catalog subject "SH383.2 .N67 2000".
- catalog subject "Whalers' spouses Massachusetts.".
- catalog subject "Whaling Massachusetts New Bedford History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Whaling Massachusetts New Bedford History.".
- catalog subject "Women Massachusetts New Bedford Social conditions 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Women Massachusetts New Bedford Social conditions.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Captain Ahab had a wife : New England women & the whalefishery, 1720-1870 / Lisa Norling.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".