Captain Ahab Had a Wife
Subtitle: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870 (Gender and American Culture)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: September 27, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780807825617
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Cultural studies; Fisheries & related industries; Social history; Women's studies; Women's Studies - General; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; New Bedford; Whalers' spouses; Fisheries; Sociology Of Women; Technology; History - U.S.; History: American; Northeastern & North Atlantic states; Ships & Shipbuilding - History; United States - 19th Century; United States - State & Local - General; Social Science / Women's Studies; Whaling; History; Agriculture - General; Women; Massachusetts; Social conditions
First sentence: In his tongue-in-cheek immortalization of Nantucket and its people in Moby-Dick, Melville linked the two elements of the island's society that rendered it so distinctive: its dominance by the Quaker faith and its dominance of the American whaling industry.