Author: Ansel Judd Northrup
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385452414
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 170

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Author: Roland B. Hussey
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Category : Siasconset (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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Author: William Root Bliss
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Category : Nantucket (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 718

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1472

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Author: Jamie L. Jones
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469674831
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 263

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Through the mid-nineteenth century, the US whaling industry helped drive industrialization and urbanization, providing whale oil to lubricate and illuminate the country. The Pennsylvania petroleum boom of the 1860s brought cheap and plentiful petroleum into the market, decimating whale oil’s popularity. Here, from our modern age of fossil fuels, Jamie L. Jones uses literary and cultural history to show how the whaling industry held firm in US popular culture even as it slid into obsolescence. Jones shows just how instrumental whaling was to the very idea of “energy” in American culture and how it came to mean a fusion of labor, production, and the circulation of power. She argues that dying industries exert real force on environmental perceptions and cultural imaginations. Analyzing a vast archive that includes novels, periodicals, artifacts from whaling ships, tourist attractions, and even whale carcasses, Jones explores the histories of race, labor, and energy consumption in the nineteenth-century United States through the lens of the whaling industry’s legacy. In terms of how they view power, Americans are, she argues, still living in the shadow of the whale.

Author: Charles Allcott Flagg
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 902

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Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 536

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Author: Robert Alexander Douglas-Lithgow
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444

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Languages : en
Pages : 776

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