Front matter to "In Pursuit of Leviathan: Technology, Institutions, Productivity, and Profits in American Whaling, 1816-1906"

In Pursuit of Leviathan: Technology, Institutions, Productivity, and Profits in American Whaling, 1816-1906 (University of Chicago Press, 1997), https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/pursuit-leviathan-technology-institutions-productivity-and-profits-american-whaling-1816-1906/front-matter-pursuit-leviathan-technology-institutions-productivity-and-profits-american-whaling.