The Law of the Whale Hunt: Dispute Resolution, Property Law,

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The Law of the Whale Hunt: Dispute Resolution, Property Law, and American Whalers, 1780–1880 (Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society)

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.
Country USA
Brand Cambridge University Press
Manufacturer Cambridge University Press
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 10 b/w illus.
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781107114630
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Cambridge University Press
Manufacturer	Cambridge University Press
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	10 b/w illus.
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781107114630
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

The Law of the Whale Hunt: Dispute Resolution, Property Law, and American Whalers, 1780–1880 (Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society)

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