In Pursuit of Leviathan: Technology, Institutions, Productivity, and Profits in American Whaling, 1816-1906 Volume 1997

by Lance E. Davis, Robert E. Gallman, Karin Gleiter

"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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226137899
• ISBN13: 9780226137896
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 557 Pages
• Weight: 2.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"