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The Doane Family
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A Comprehensive History, Ecclesiastical and Civil, of Eastham, Wellfleet, and Orleans
The north parish of Eastham was incorporated as the town of Wellfleet in 1763, and the south parish as Orleans in 1797.
Seafaring Labour
Sager argues that sailors were not misfits or outcasts but were divorced from society only by virtue of their occupation. The wooden ships were small communities at sea, fragments of normal society where workers lived, struggled, and often died. With the coming of the age of steam, the sailor became part of a new division of labour and a new social hierarchy at sea. Sager shows that the sailor was as integral to the transition to industrial capitalism as any land worker.
Hen Frigates
A hen frigate is any boat with the captain's wife on board. This is their story of life on the high seas.
A Game of Chance
It’s almost impossible to imagine spending eight months at sea “without once putting foot on land.” But that’s exactly what whalers experienced when playing the dangerous “game of chance,” hunting down leviathans for oil and bone—all for a “lay,” or share, of the vessel’s spoils. A Game of Chance is the first comprehensive, in-depth study of British North American South Seas whaling. Author Andrea Kirkpatrick takes readers on a series of fascinating and sometimes fantastical journeys as she chronicles in great detail the story of a largely forgotten industry that operated out of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick ports from the 1760s to 1850. Kirkpatrick plumbed the depths of ...
Last Resort
This book, first published in 1998, revisits the period in the 1940s and 1950s when many Americans were operated on for mental illness.
