In Pursuit of Leviathan : Technology, Institutions, Productivity, and Profits in American Whaling, 1816-1906.
In Pursuit of Leviathan traces the American whaling industry from its rise in the 1840s to its precipitous fall at the end of the nineteenth century. Using detailed and comprehensive data that describe more than four thousand whaling voyages from New Bedford, Massachusetts, the leading nineteenth-ce...
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
1997.
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Collection: | National Bureau of Economic Research Series on Long-Term Factors in Economic Development.
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