The Law of the Whale Hunt: Dispute Resolution, Property Law, and American Whalers, 1780–1880

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Robert Deal (Marshall University, West Virginia)

The Law of the Whale Hunt

Dispute Resolution, Property Law, and American Whalers, 1780–1880

Robert Deal (Marshall University, West Virginia)

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English

Cambridge University Press
04 February 2016

History of the Americas; Maritime history; Legal history; Property law

Series: 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.

By: Robert Deal (Marshall University West Virginia)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 157mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 410g
ISBN: 9781107114630
ISBN 10: 1107114632
Series: Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
Pages: 204
Publication Date: 04 February 2016
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Robert Deal is an Assistant Professor of History at Marshall University, West Virginia.