Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case that Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature
This book takes as its centerpiece the largely obscure trial Maurice v. Judd, which took place in New York City in 1818. Coming soon after the state legislature had passed a law requiring the inspection of “fish oils” inspector James Maurice sued whale oil salesman Samuel Judd for refusing to submit...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2010
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2010, Volume: 52, Issue: 4, Pages: 748-750 |
| Review of: | Trying Leviathan (Princeton, NJ [u.a.] : Princeton University Press, 2007) (Shapiro, Adam R.)
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| Summary: | This book takes as its centerpiece the largely obscure trial Maurice v. Judd, which took place in New York City in 1818. Coming soon after the state legislature had passed a law requiring the inspection of “fish oils” inspector James Maurice sued whale oil salesman Samuel Judd for refusing to submit to inspection. Judd's defense was that whale oil was not fish oil, leading to the fantastic claim in court that the whale is not a fish., Burnett exploits the trial to draft a larger picture of natural history and its status in New York society in this period. In doing so, he unites themes of nationalism, zoology, mercantilism, and the tensions between elite and popular forms of knowledge. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csq130 |