Problematic Postage: Canada’s Claim to the Arctic through a Postage Stamp
In 1955, the Canadian Post Office Department issues a stamp to highlight its effective occupation of the High Arctic.
In 1955, the Canadian Post Office Department issues a stamp to highlight its effective occupation of the High Arctic.
An edited volume examining and challenging the reputed “greenness” of Finland.
This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Famines in Late Nineteenth-Century India: Politics, Culture, and Environmental Justice”—written and curated by sociologist Naresh Chandra Sourabh and economic historian Timo Myllyntaus.
Vicki Luker details the important role played by tabua—or whales’ teeth—in Fijian history.
Bathsheba Demuth looks at the value of whales for indigenous peoples around the Bering Strait.
Billie Lythberg and Wayne Ngata explore what it means to be whale people in the modern whaling period.
Joshua L. Reid concludes that the history of Pacific whaling has undergone a scholarly renaissance.