Whale Peoples and Pacific Worlds
Joshua L. Reid concludes that the history of Pacific whaling has undergone a scholarly renaissance.
Joshua L. Reid concludes that the history of Pacific whaling has undergone a scholarly renaissance.
In this episode from Outrage + Optimism, hosts Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac, and Paul Dickinson talk about the visibility of women in the context of sciences, the soundscapes and animals of Antarctica, as well as human intervention in this natural sphere.
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.
Jason Colby explores the role of one female gray whale in shaping human perceptions of her species and their status in the wild.
Noell Wilson details Japanese attempts to integrate modern-day Hokkaido into the Tokugawa political sphere via drift-whale policy.