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AMERICAN HISTORY

NEW Who Stole The Essex

When Women Conservatism? and the Whale
Didn’t Count Capitalism and the Melville’s Leviathan Library
Disappearance of and the Birth of Moby-Dick
The Chronic Mismeasure Traditional Conservatism
and Marginalization of R. D. MADISON, EDITOR
American Women in MARIO R. DINUNZIO
Federal Statistics

ROBERT LOPRESTI

March 2016, 275pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4
Print: 978-1-4408-5007-3
July 2016, 179pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4
Print: 978-1-4408-5282-4 $58.00, £45.00, €53.00
$37.00, £29.00, €34.00 eBook: 978-1-4408-5008-0
June 2017, 352pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4 eBook: 978-1-4408-5283-1
Print: 978-1-4408-4368-6 Madison’s book is most
$58.00, £45.00, €53.00 “
[T]he work is useful as an
eBook: 978-1-4408-4369-3 “ overview of this view of valuable, however, for its
inclusion of less prominent
American conservatism. . . . yet still interesting writers who
“ scholars working in the areas Recommended. ” touched Melville’s literary
Librarians, teachers, and
sensibilities. . . . Recommended.
of U.S. history, gender studies, —Choice, January 4, 2017 Lower-division undergraduates
social sciences, and cultural A compelling explanation of how and above; general readers. ”
studies will find this to be an conservatism is no longer what its —Choice, October 3, 2016
” This fascinating anthology introduces
incredibly useful text. founders intended and how it has been
—Cassandra Hartnett, U.S. Documents transformed into a tool of materialist readers to the literary side of Herman
Librarian, University of Washington economics and emptied of much of its
Libraries, March 1, 2017 original meaning. Melville’s whaling world with an
unprecedented collection of the original
Erroneous government-generated “data” FEATURES whaling texts from which Melville drew
is more problematic than it would • Documents the range of influences to create his masterpiece, Moby-Dick.
appear. This book demonstrates how across history that created and
women’s history has consistently been molded the cultural and political FEATURES
hidden and distorted by 200 years of ideology of modern conservatism, • Offers the full text of Owen Chase’s
such as the French Revolution,
official government statistics. large-scale capitalism in the Gilded Narrative of the Most Extraordinary
and Distressing Shipwreck of the
FEATURES Age, Social Darwinism, and Andrew Whale-ship Essex and lengthy excerpts
Carnegie’s “gospel of wealth”
• Provides new ways of thinking about the from the texts of Melville’s other
history of women in the United States whaling books, gathered in one handy
compendium
MARIO R. DINUNZIO, PhD, is
emeritus professor of history at
ROBERT LOPRESTI is a professor Providence College in Rhode Island,
at Western Washington University, where he has taught for many years. R. D. MADISON is professor emeritus
Bellingham, WA. He has been a of English at the U.S. Naval Academy.
government information librarian for
almost 40 years.

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