A wide-ranging, readable account of an eccentric and exceptional man who crossed cultures and changed history.

Freshly presents world history through its oceans and seas in uniquely wide-ranging, original chapters by leading experts in their fields.

In the nineteenth century, nearly all Native American men living along the southern New England coast made their living traveling the world's oceans on whaleshi

During the height of 19th century imperialism, Rudyard Kipling published his poem "The white man's burden." While some of his American readers argued that the p

Between 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country. Government officials and mission