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- Title
Knowledge of Leviathan.
- Authors
Bouk, Dan; Burnett, D. Graham
- Abstract
The article offers information about the natural history of whale and its social and economic implication in the American history. The whale was considered as a notable creature for its size and obscurity. It was remarkable for its larger cultural and economic significance in the early republic. It was at the center of early nineteenth-century society in coastal New England and beyond which provides light and livelihoods. The natural history of whales showed that the amount of oil that particular whales tended to contain and emphasized the kinds of knowledge gathered by and for those who pursued the coast of Brazil. This represents a vision of practical and applied knowledge originated in the late eighteenth-century world of agricultural improvers and industrial innovators.
- Subjects
UNITED States; WHALE anatomy; ANIMAL behavior; HABITATS; AGRICULTURAL development; ECONOMIC development; AGRICULTURAL technology; TECHNOLOGICAL innovations; UNITED States history; NATURAL history
- Publication
Journal of the Early Republic, 2008, Vol 28, Issue 3, p433
- ISSN
0275-1275
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/jer.0.0029