Rites and Passages: The Experience of American Whaling, 1830-1870

by Margaret S. Creighton

Book Overview

This book contributes to what has recently been called a 'new social history of seafaring'. This new maritime history places sailors themselves at the center, not the periphery, of the maritime past, and explores ways that the history of the sea and the history of the shore have intersected. It differs from traditional accounts which celebrate exotic trades, powerful merchants, maritime technologies, and military exploits. Drawn on the evidence of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521484480
• ISBN13: 9780521484480
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"