| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 106.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Lisa Norling. Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720–1870. (Gender and American Culture.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2000. Pp. xiv, 372. Cloth $45.00, paper $19.95.

This cleverly named account neatly evokes Herman Melville's masterpiece to raise the seemingly straightforward question of what transpired on shore, once men left in search of profit and nature's leviathan. In tracing the impact of the whalefishery on the lives of women in New England, Lisa Norling simultaneously chronicles the evolution of an important sector of the economy and the development of domestic ideals increasingly at odds with that industry's demands. The intersection between the two informs a complex and well-written work of social and economic history. . . .

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