Kurkpatrick Dorsey

Whales and Nations

Environmental Diplomacy on the High Seas

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Produktbeschreibung

Kurkpatrick Dorsey is professor of history at the University of New Hampshire.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 162mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 649g
• ISBN-13: 9780295993119
• ISBN-10: 0295993111
• Artikelnr.: 37742528

Autorenporträt

Kurkpatrick Dorsey. Foreword by William Cronon

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by William Cronon
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
1. A Global Industry and Global Challenges
2. The Pelagic and the Political
3. World War and the World's Whales
4. Cheaters Sometimes Prosper
5. Melting Down and Muddling Through
6. Save the Whales (for Later)
7. The End of Commercial Whaling
Epilogue
Appendix: Whaling Data, 1904-1965
Notes
Bibliography
Index