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Record #166291:
The development of a Southern Whale Fishery from Britain between 1775 and 1815 / Jane Clayton.
Title: | The development of a Southern Whale Fishery from Britain between 1775 and 1815 / Jane Clayton. |
Author(s): | Clayton, Jane. |
Date: | 2002. |
Abstract: | Examines British involvement in Southern Whale Fishery from 1775-1815. Includes whaling as commercial activity; detailed 60-page list of whaling vessels employed in British southern fishery; influence of individual political figures, and of political events; global whaling network, New England whaling families, Nantucket Quaker families, merchant adventurers and ship owners; and Charles Greville's efforts from 1780s to establish Milford in south Wales as whaling town. |
Keywords: | 639.245.1 -- Whaling industry: British. 91(08) -- Expeditions. 93"17" -- Eighteenth century. 93"180" -- 1800-1809. 93"181" -- 1810-1819. 639.2.081 -- Fishing, methods and equipment. 336.6 -- Business enterprise finance. 339 -- Trade. 32 -- Politics. 323 -- Politics, internal. 327 -- International relations. 330.34 -- Economic development. 711.4 -- Settlements and stations. 711.42(2) -- Settlements and stations, specific: Milford. 711.453.4 -- Ports and harbour towns. V -- History. (*7) -- Antarctic regions. (*80) -- Southern Ocean. |
Location(s): | SCO: SPRI-THE: 2002[Cla] |
SPRI record no.: | 166291 |
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