Perspectives

Sayer looks at candles as an example of how less prominant energy sources and uses play key roles in energy transitions.

Gooday challenges established assumptions about the inevitability of modern energy decisions and places the agency of women in the foreground of domestic electrification.

Taylor examines the conflicts faced by women during energy transitions as professionals in energy management and as primary managers of domestic energy use.

Lissa Wadewitz juxtaposes the American animal welfare movement with American whaling crews.

Nancy Shoemaker considers the four main products harvested in the nineteenth-century sperm whale trade.

Kate Stevens and Angela Wanhalla explore the role of Māori women in nineteenth-century shore-whaling.

Susan A. Lebo analyzes three decades of newspaper articles reporting whaling in Hawaiian waters from the 1840s.

Vicki Luker details the important role played by tabua—or whales’ teeth—in Fijian history.

Noell Wilson details Japanese attempts to integrate modern-day Hokkaido into the Tokugawa political sphere via drift-whale policy.