New Histories of Pacific Whaling – Revised Edition
This volume provides new histories of Pacific whaling from untold perspectives.
This volume provides new histories of Pacific whaling from untold perspectives.
Introduction to the virtual exhibition Oceans in Three Paradoxes: Knowing the Blue through the Humanities.
Chapter 1 of Helen Rozwadowski’s virtual exhibition, Oceans in Three Paradoxes: Knowing the Blue through the Humanities.
Chapter 2 from Helen Rozwadowski’s virtual exhibition, “Oceans in Three Paradoxes: Knowing the Blue through the Humanities.”
A mere dream for centuries, the Northwest Passage has now become a place and a topic where scientific and traditional knowledge intersect. This is the introductory chapter of “The Northwest Passage: Myth, Environment, and Resources”—a virtual exhibition written by historian Elena Baldassarri.
Is the Arctic the last frontier? With text, audio, and video, historian Elena Baldassarri describes the historical struggle to find a passage through the perilous environments of the Far North. This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “The Northwest Passage: Myth, Environment, and Resources.”
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.