Whales and nations [electronic resource] : environmental diplomacy on the high seas / Kurkpatrick Dorsey.
Material type: TextSeries: Weyerhaeuser environmental books | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2014. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm.)ISBN:- 9780295804941
- 0295804947
- NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy
- NATURE / Animals / Marine Life
- International cooperation -- History -- 20th century
- Diplomacy -- History -- 20th century
- Environmental law, International -- History -- 20th century
- Whaling -- Law and legislation -- History -- 20th century
- Sustainable fisheries -- History -- 20th century
- Whales -- Conservation -- History -- 20th century
- Whaling -- Environmental aspects -- History -- 20th century
- Whaling -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century
- 338.3/7295 23
- SH383 .D67 2014
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / by William Cronon -- A Global Industry and Global Challenges -- The Pelagic and the Political -- World War and the World's Whales -- Cheaters Sometimes Prosper -- Melting Down and Muddling Through -- Save the Whales (for Later) -- The End of Commercial Whaling -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Whaling Data, 1904-1965.
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