Brill explores the relationship between “Science” and “the sciences”, and the political potential of the two, in the context of research cooperations involving indigenous groups.
This volume provides new histories of Pacific whaling from untold perspectives.
The Maijuna, an endangered indigenous group, are fighting for survival in the midst of development pressures in the Peruvian Amazon.
Once introduced to promote the fur industry, beavers in Tierra del Fuego are now deemed an invasive population to be eradicated.
This article rethinks the environmental history of water and power in Copiapó between 1744 and 1801.
This volume provides new histories of Pacific whaling from untold perspectives.
Indigenous groups in Nayarit, Mexico, reaffirmed their sacred environmental sites through social movement.
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.
