Historians have long debated whether the end of slavery in the United States was primarily driven by moral campaigns or economic changes. But what if both perspectives are looking at only part of the ...

Nantucketer Christopher Hussey kills the island's first sperm whale, and deep-ocean whaling commences. For the next century and a half, Nantucketers will specialize in hunting sperm whales.

Smith assembled a team of scientists and historians to determine the effect that 19th century American offshore whaling had on whales. In 2010, the team finished up a 10-year project of assembling ...

Thirdly, industrial whaling in the twentieth century. Whaling was an imperial industry, contributing to the expansion of the empire and consolidation of its presence. Many Cetacea specimens held by ...

Commercial whaling (distinguished from ASW by its participants, purpose, scale, and techniques) began in the 11 th century with the Basque inhabitants of the French and Spanish coastlines of the Bay ...

Norway has hunted whales in its own waters for centuries, but key technological advances, such as the exploding harpoon cannon, developed by its whalers in the 19 th century, enabled the expansion of ...