The law of the whale hunt : dispute resolution, property law, and American whalers, 1780-1880 / Robert Deal, Marshall University.

Whale oil lit the cities and greased the machines of the Industrial Revolution. In light of its importance, competition between whalers was high. Far from courts and law enforcement, competing crews of American whalers not known for their gentility and armed with harpoons tended to resolve disputes...

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Main Author: Deal, Robert, 1958- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Series:Cambridge historical studies in American law and society.
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316335383
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