Gabriella Corona e Christof Mauch confrontano le tradizioni storiografiche nazionali della propria disciplina, le questioni aperte e le future sfide della storia dell’ambiente in Germania e in Italia.
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.
Akamine Jun explores foodways of whale meat in Japan, specifically detailing Baird’s-beaked- whaling in eastern Japan.
Bathsheba Demuth looks at the value of whales for indigenous peoples around the Bering Strait.
