The Law of the Whale Hunt
Dispute Resolution, Property Law, and American Whalers, 1780-1880
Series: Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 4 February 2016
- ISBN 9781107114630
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages192 pages
- Size 235x157x17 mm
- Weight 410 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 b/w illus. 0
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Short description:
The Law of the Whale Hunt examines how property law was created in the absence of legal institutions regulating whaling in early America.
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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 at sea over ownership of whales. Left to settle arguments on their own, whalemen created norms and customs to decide ownership of whales pursued by multiple crews. The Law of the Whale Hunt provides an innovative examination of how property law was created in the absence of formal legal institutions regulating the American whaling industry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Using depositions, court testimony, logbooks, and other previously unused primary sources, Robert Deal tells an exciting story of American whalers hunting in waters from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific and the Sea of Okhotsk.
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1. Introduction; 2. The biology, economics, and geography of Anglo-American whaling; 3. Fast-fish, loose-fish; 4. Iron holds the whale; 5. Laws of honor; 6. Halves; 7. The environment of litigation; 8. An untragic commons; 9. Conclusion.
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