- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Tables in the Text
- Appendices of Statistical Information
- New Introduction
- Preface
- Part One: The Traditional Whaling Trades, 1604-1914
- Chapter 1 Northern Adventures and the Spitsbergen Trade, c. 1604-1670
- Chapter 2 Lost Hopes and Expensive Failures, c. 1670-1750
- Chapter 3 The Rise of the Greenland Trade, 1750-1783
- Chapter 4 The Boom in the Northern Fishery, 1783-c. 1808
- Chapter 5 Expansion South of the Arctic Seas, c. 1776-c. 1808
- Chapter 6 Decline in the North in the Early Nineteenth Century
- Chapter 7 Expansion and Failure of the Southern Fishery c. 1808-1840
- Chapter 8 The End of the Northern Fishery in the Late Nineteenth Century
- Part Two: The Modern Whaling Trade, 1904-1963
- Chapter 9 New Whaling Techniques
- Chapter 10 New Whaling Areas
- Chapter 11 Advances in Oil Technology
- Chapter 12 Expanding Fleets and the New Fishing Grounds, 1919-1920
- Chapter 13 Crisis and Contraction, 1929-1932
- Chapter 14 Regulated Recklessness, 1932-1939
- Chapter 15 The Final Fling, 1945-1963
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- Select Bibliography
- Addional Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 3 The Rise of the Greenland Trade, 1750-1783
Chapter 3 The Rise of the Greenland Trade, 1750-1783
- Chapter:
- (p.47) Chapter 3 The Rise of the Greenland Trade, 1750-1783
- Source:
- The British Whaling Trade
- Author(s):
Gordon Jackson
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
By the mid-eighteenth century politicians were well accustomed to arguments about the advantages derived from trade. Pitt's famous dictum, "When trade is at stake you must defend it or perish," echoed views that had inspired the Navigation Laws a century earlier. Since the sum of world trade was limited, trade warfare was necessary to increase the British share of world prosperity, a prosperity which could only come about, according to the "bullionist" theory that still held sway, when Britain imported more gold than she exported. Matthew Decker put the matter succinctly in his ...
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Tables in the Text
- Appendices of Statistical Information
- New Introduction
- Preface
- Part One: The Traditional Whaling Trades, 1604-1914
- Chapter 1 Northern Adventures and the Spitsbergen Trade, c. 1604-1670
- Chapter 2 Lost Hopes and Expensive Failures, c. 1670-1750
- Chapter 3 The Rise of the Greenland Trade, 1750-1783
- Chapter 4 The Boom in the Northern Fishery, 1783-c. 1808
- Chapter 5 Expansion South of the Arctic Seas, c. 1776-c. 1808
- Chapter 6 Decline in the North in the Early Nineteenth Century
- Chapter 7 Expansion and Failure of the Southern Fishery c. 1808-1840
- Chapter 8 The End of the Northern Fishery in the Late Nineteenth Century
- Part Two: The Modern Whaling Trade, 1904-1963
- Chapter 9 New Whaling Techniques
- Chapter 10 New Whaling Areas
- Chapter 11 Advances in Oil Technology
- Chapter 12 Expanding Fleets and the New Fishing Grounds, 1919-1920
- Chapter 13 Crisis and Contraction, 1929-1932
- Chapter 14 Regulated Recklessness, 1932-1939
- Chapter 15 The Final Fling, 1945-1963
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- Select Bibliography
- Addional Bibliography
- Index
