Origins of the Scottish Northern Whale Fishery
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- Author(s) Sanger, Chesley W
- Publication type Dissertation, PhD
- Year published 1985
- Publisher University of Dundee
- Place Published Dundee
Topics:
- Name Geopolitical event, natural disaster, etc, impact on business inc end of empire, war, disease, catastrophe, etc, exc industrial conflict
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- Name Dundee University Library
- City Dundee
- County Tayside
- Country Scotland
- Postcode DD1 4HN
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Traces and explains the origins and development of the industry, notably from 1750 to 1800 when it initially grew tentatively on the back of government subsidy, and from 1790s when it grew strongly to become a European leader. Has sections: 'Global history of whaling - temporal and spatial settings'; 'Resource base'; 'Physical environmental factors ...'; 'Pre 1750 British northern whaling efforts'; 'Scottish Artic whaling - the initial phase, early expansion and consolidation, 1750-63'; 'Post war stability, 1764-74'; 'American Revolutionary War - debility and decline, 1775-83'; 'Boom and bust, interwar period, 1784-92'; 'Consolidation during the French Wars, 1793-1801 - prologue of British dominance of northern whaling'