Beauties and Beasts: Whales in Portugal, from Early-Modern Monsters to Today’s Flagship Species
This article looks at changing perceptions of whales along the coasts of Portugal.
This article looks at changing perceptions of whales along the coasts of Portugal.
This article investigates the origins of the exploitation of sperm whales off the Brazilian coast in the eighteenth century.
This volume provides new histories of Pacific whaling from untold perspectives.
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.
Jakobina Arch contrasts the modern Japanese whaling industry with expansionist imperial Meiji regime policies.