Trying Leviathan : the nineteenth-century New York court case that put the whale on trial and challenged the order of nature

Author(s)

• Burnett, D. Graham

Bibliographic Information

Trying Leviathan : the nineteenth-century New York court case that put the whale on trial and challenged the order of nature

D. Graham Burnett

Princeton University Press, c2007

• : hardcover

Note

Bibliography: p. 225-245

Includes index

Details

• NCID: BA85310418
• ISBN:
  • 9780691129501
• LCCN: 2007008378
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Princeton
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 266 p., [16] p. of plates
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : KF228.M38
  • DC22 : 344.747/0957
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Maurice, James, fl. 1818 -- Trials, litigation, etc
  • LCSH : Judd, Samuel, fl. 1818 -- Trials, litigation, etc
  • LCSH : Trials (Tax evasion) -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Whale oil -- Taxation -- Law and legislation -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Whales -- Classification -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Whaling -- United States -- History -- 19th century
  • LCSH : Zoology -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century