Whale Peoples and Pacific Worlds
Joshua L. Reid concludes that the history of Pacific whaling has undergone a scholarly renaissance.
Joshua L. Reid concludes that the history of Pacific whaling has undergone a scholarly renaissance.
The Japanese port city Hachinohe plans to reintroduce commercial whaling, but the city’s troubled past challenges the official narrative.
This volume provides new histories of Pacific whaling from untold perspectives.
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, former RCC Fellow Ryan Tucker Jones is interviewed on his recent book, Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling.
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.
Jason Colby explores the role of one female gray whale in shaping human perceptions of her species and their status in the wild.