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...Ronn Pineo Paita, Outpost of Empire: The Impact of the New England Whaling Fleet on the Socioeconomic Development of Northern Peru 1832-1865 , . By Lofstrom William L. . Mystic : Mystic Seaport Museum , 1996 . Plates. Maps. Figures. Appendix. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index...

... furnish an interesting insight into our whaling and merchant shipping during the first sixteen years of our national existence, especially since outstanding figures of the commerce of that day, such as Elias Hasket Derby of Salem, Theodore Lyman and Thomas Handasyd Perkins of Boston, John Brown and John...

... invoked American abolitionism by fleeing in great numbers to US whalers stationed in the province of Santa Catarina, the center of Brazilian offshore whaling. There, slaves expected to be emancipated upon stepping onto those patches of free soil floating in Brazilian slave territory. Americans had long...

... worlds as it is seen in Herman Melville’s narrative. De Onís views Captain Ahab’s messianic struggle with the white whale in Moby Dick as an allegory of the confrontation between Protestant North America’s “righteous empire” and the decadent Spanish-speaking people. De Onís stresses that in Melville’s...

... in 1792, even as the whalers first appeared off the Chilean coast, it reached its peak in 1803 and then, owing to the extermination of the sea mammals, declined as dramatically as it had soared. Yankee ships ostensibly engaged only in whaling or taking on seal skins began, especially after the 1795...

...Engel Sluiter A very few examples. The “Icelandic trade,” which the author admits to be unimportant (p. 146), gets a full chapter, while major branches such as the Norway timber trade and Arctic whaling (with all its corporate and commercial ramifications) rate only incidental mention. The pre...

... diversity of tasks for which slaves were used, from whaling to mule trains to escravos ao ganho (slaves who worked on their own account and paid a day wage to masters). Extensive cross-regional coverage is also provided, with the main story flowing, as we might expect, from northeast to southeast...

... and whaling in the waters within its jurisdiction and empowered Vernet to enforce the limitation. In 1831, under this mandate, Vernet took possession of three vessels flying the flag of the United States and brought one of them to Buenos Aires. There being no American chargé d’affaires in Buenos Aires...

... and fastest vessels in the world and also allowed them to dominate the whaling industry during the early nineteenth century. Marques illustrates Americans' unwavering commitment to the trafficking of Africans to generate wealth and comfort for themselves. First documenting the efforts of politicians...

... an exact account of the defects of Spanish colonial administration so that his successor might remedy them. He found political and economic conditions of Peru very backward. The extensive contraband trade complicated them still more. The English and North Americans fished for whales in Peruvian waters...

... unfamiliar with the operations of the period’s stock market, the book provides informative detail on the flotation, management, and promotion of joint-stock enterprises as well as the particular popularity enjoyed by firms registered to conduct business in Mexico, such as the Pacific whale fisheries...

... of all these groups. and of compulsory military service on the continent, role of the Yankee whaling ships, statistics on Yankee sailors who jumped ship in the islands and had to be replaced, role of the Dabney family on Fayal, ethnographic influence of the American contact on clothesj house construction...

... used family connections to obtain the position, or their family connections made others in the society more ready to accept them. Many magistrates also engaged in business activities—whale fishing, slave trading, commerce, and plantations—entering into contracts and partnerships. Some, like Pedro...

... the nineteenth century when dried beef became a mainstay, the slave diets of the Northeast seem to have focused heavily on manioc, and whenever and wherever there was insufficient supplementation, in the form of whale meat, shellfish, chickens, beans, and so forth, beriberi would have quickly appeared. Thus...

... History,” The Journal of Economic History , 25 (Mar. 1965), 35-60; Rollie Poppino, “Cattle Raising in Colonial Brazil,” Mid-America , 31 (Oct. 1949), 219-247. Gregory Girard Brown, Appendix (1978). Alden, “Yankee Sperm Whalers in Brazilian Waters, and the Decline of the Portuguese Whale Fishery (1773...

... of the eighteenth century. The major exports consisted of yerba maté, cattle and horsehides, tallow, raw wool, animal skins, horn, flour, and whale oil. During the last years of the vice-royalty, salted meat also began to figure prominently as an export. 6 Almanak Mercantil: Guía de Comerciantes para el año...

... ). See Gutiérrez Hinojosa, Cultura vallenata . The other school argues that the term emerged in republican times as a pejorative name given to cowboys, referring to how working at open range made them prone to develop vitiligo, which made their skin look like that of a baby whale ( ballenato ). See...

... was the principal fuel in coastal regions, due to its accessibility to water transport and its high quality. Red mangrove is extremely dense (1.20 specific gravity), making it a superior fuel whether in the form of raw firewood or charcoal. 21 Sugar millers in particular, but also whale oil processors, lime...

... only two American families left in Galbis as well. 100 As a colonist in Omaja observed: “Why this town was never handed the same treatment that Galbis and Paso Estancia received will always remain a mystery. Possibly we would have had a touch of what the former got had it not been for a whale...

..., sugar, cotton, and timber for export as well as maize, firewood, all manner of vegetables, whale oil, salt fish, earthenware pottery, and cassava flour for local consumption. 8 Of all the products Lindley lists, sugar carried the greatest economic weight in Bahia. Sugar was Bahia’s oldest...