oceans

Jakobina Arch contrasts the modern Japanese whaling industry with expansionist imperial Meiji regime policies.

Noell Wilson details Japanese attempts to integrate modern-day Hokkaido into the Tokugawa political sphere via drift-whale policy.

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.

Nancy Shoemaker considers the four main products harvested in the nineteenth-century sperm whale trade.

Lissa Wadewitz juxtaposes the American animal welfare movement with American whaling crews.