- 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 4 The Boom in the Northern Fishery, 1783-c. 1808
Chapter 4 The Boom in the Northern Fishery, 1783-c. 1808
- Chapter:
- (p.61) Chapter 4 The Boom in the Northern Fishery, 1783-c. 1808
- Source:
- The British Whaling Trade
- Author(s):
Gordon Jackson
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
However humiliating for the politicians and soldiers, the peace of 1783 was the signal for an immense expansion of the British economy and a consequent rise in the demand for all manner of raw materials. So far as the oil trade was concerned, the peace terms removed at a stroke the most damaging competitors. "We are surprised," said John Adams, the America minister in London, "that you prefer darkness and consequent robberies, burglaries and murders in your streets, to the receiving, as a remittance, our spermaceti oil."...
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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
