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Whale Peoples and Pacific Worlds
Joshua L. Reid concludes that the history of Pacific whaling has undergone a scholarly renaissance.
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Searching for Gigi: Captivity, Culture, and the Pacific Coast’s Embrace of Gray Whales
Jason Colby explores the role of one female gray whale in shaping human perceptions of her species and their status in the wild.
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The Polluted Past of the Whaling Town Hachinohe
The Japanese port city Hachinohe plans to reintroduce commercial whaling, but the city’s troubled past challenges the official narrative.
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New Histories of Pacific Whaling – Revised Edition
This volume provides new histories of Pacific whaling from untold perspectives.
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The American Animal Welfare Movement and Pacific Whaling
Lissa Wadewitz juxtaposes the American animal welfare movement with American whaling crews.
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Oil, Spermaceti, Ambergris, and Teeth: Products of the Nineteenth-Century Pacific Sperm-Whaling Industry
Nancy Shoemaker considers the four main products harvested in the nineteenth-century sperm whale trade.
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Māori Women in Southern New Zealand’s Shore-Whaling World
Kate Stevens and Angela Wanhalla explore the role of Māori women in nineteenth-century shore-whaling.
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Newspaper Stories Promoting Local Nineteenth-Century Shore-Based Whaling in Hawaiian Waters
Susan A. Lebo analyzes three decades of newspaper articles reporting whaling in Hawaiian waters from the 1840s.
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Whaling, Tabua, and Cokanauto
Vicki Luker details the important role played by tabua—or whales’ teeth—in Fijian history.
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Whaling at the Margins: Drift Whales, Ainu Laborers, and the Japanese State on the Nineteenth-Century Okhotsk Coast
Noell Wilson details Japanese attempts to integrate modern-day Hokkaido into the Tokugawa political sphere via drift-whale policy.