John R Bockstoce
Biographic Data
| ID | 3608654 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John R Bockstoce |
| GIVEN NAMES | John R |
| FAMILY NAME | Bockstoce |
| SIGNATURE | BOCKSTOCE J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Dartmouth |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
White Fox and Icy Seas in the Western Arctic: The Fur Trade, Transportation, and Change in the Early Twentieth Century
White Fox and Icy Seas in the Western Arctic: The Fur Trade, Transportation, and Change in the Early Twentieth Century
This book examines the challenges that confronted the peoples of the Western Arctic in the early twentieth century, a result of the collapse of the whaling industry and the nearly simultaneous rise of the market for white fox skins. The fur trade created temporary wealth for the Northerners and induced population movements throughout the region. When the price of white fox skins declined during the 1930s these peoples, who had dispersed for trapp…
Conversations with Tiger: Forty Years of Dialogue . . . and One Uncompleted Project
John R. Bockstoce⇑ John R. Bockstoce, New Bedford Whaling Museum Address for correspondence: 1 Hill Street, South Dartmouth, MA 02784–3410; john_r_bockstoce{at}msn.com
Sea-Ice Distribution in the Bering and Chukchi Seas: Information from Historical Whaleships’ Logbooks and Journals
Satellite data have revealed dramatic losses of Northern Hemisphere sea ice since the end of the 1970s. To place these changes in a longer-term context, we draw on daily observations taken from logbooks and journals of whaling vessels cruising in the Bering and Chukchi seas to investigate sea-ice conditions in this region of the Arctic between 1850 and 1910. We compare these observations to sea-ice data from 1972 to 1982, which predate the majori…
Furs and Frontiers in the Far North: The Contest among Native and Foreign Nations for the Bering Strait Fur Trade
The Opening of the Maritime Fur Trade at Bering Strait: Americans and Russians Meet the 'Kanjġmiut' in Kotzebue Sound
John R. Bockstoce, The Opening of the Maritime Fur Trade at Bering Strait: Americans and Russians Meet the 'Kanjġmiut' in Kotzebue Sound, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 95, No. 1 (2005), pp. i-v, vii, ix-xii, 1-29, 31-51, 53-59, 61-71, 73-78
Froelich Gladstone Rainey (1907-92)
Froelich Rainey, one of the central figures in the development of arctic archaeology, died on 11 October 1992. He was a leader in world archaeology and had made important discoveries on four continents during a career that spanned half a century; yet it was his early work, in Alaska, that he regarded as his most significant research
Arctic voyages of the motor-cutter Belvedere , 1983–87
This article summarizes voyages in the western Arctic of North America during four summers 1983–87, in an 18.3 m cutter-rigged steel motor cruiser, for the purpose of research into the history of commercial whaling, sealing and fur trading. Use of a small, self-sufficient sea-going boat allows access into the small harbours and coves where relics of commerce from the sailing-ship and early steam-ship eras are mostly found
Whales, Ice, and Men: The History of Whaling in the Western Arctic
Whales, Ice, and Men: The History of Whaling in the Western Arctic
Whales, Ice, and Men: The History of Whaling in the Western Arctic
Whales, Ice, and Men: The History of Whaling in the Western Arctic
Journal Article Whales, Ice, and Men: The History of Whaling in the Western Arctic Get access Whales, Ice, and Men: The History of Whaling in the Western Arctic. By Bockstoce John R.. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1986. 400 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.) Daniel Vickers Daniel Vickers Memorial University of Newfoundland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar W…
From Davis Strait to Bering Strait: The Arrival of the Commercial Whaling Fleet in North America's Western Arctic
This paper, then, focuses primarily on the whaling industry as a whole and not centrally upon the arctic regions - because the impetus for the arrival of the whaling fleets at the gates of the American Arctic came directly from the economic centers of Europe and America, and only as the result of a concatenation of political and economic events were the fleets drawn to the north. My discussion will not deal specifically with the history of either…
A Gazetteer of Whalers' Place-Names for the Bering Strait Region and the Western Arctic
References Useful references for determining geographical names in the Bering Strait region and western Arctic of North America. Canadian Hydrographic Service Pilot of Arctic Canada, Vol. 3, 1968, Ottawa. Defense Mapping Agency Hydrographic Center Sailing Directions (enroute) for the East Coast of the U.S.S.R. , publication 155, Department of Defense, 1972, Washington Findlay, A. G. Directory for Behring's Sea and Coast of Alaska, Bureau of Navig…
Steam Whaling in the Western Arctic
The Eskimos of Bering Strait, 1650-1898
Contacts between American Whalemen and the Copper Eskimos
It has often been maintained that the Copper Eskimos did not have contacts with white men between the early eighteen fifties and the first decade of the twentieth century. The earliest recent encounters are generally believed to have occurred in 1902, when David Hanbury conducted explorations on the mainland near Coronation Gulf, and in 1905-06 and 1907-08, when Christian Klengenberg and Captain William Mogg respectively wintered on the schooner …
Netsilik Eskimo Material Culture: The Roald Amundsen Collection from King William Island
George Peard's journal kept on HMS Blossom , 1825–28
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A prehistoric population change in the Bering Strait region
The Birnirk culture is important in Inupiak Eskimo prehistory because the Thule and Western Thule cultures and all recent prehistoric Eskimo cultures derive from it. Its appearance on the American side of Bering Strait has puzzled archaeologists because it is linked to the cultures of the Asian side of the strait and is not lineally related to the cultures, Norton and Ipiutak, that it replaced in Alaska. Recent excavations at Cape Nome, Alaska, h…
Journey by umiak from Cape Nome, Alaska, to Cape Bathurst, Northwest Territories, 1972
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A prehistoric population change in the Bering Strait region
The Birnirk culture is important in Inupiak Eskimo prehistory because the Thule and Western Thule cultures and all recent prehistoric Eskimo cultures derive from it. Its appearance on the American side of Bering Strait has puzzled archaeologists because it is linked to the cultures of the Asian side of the strait and is not lineally related to the cultures, Norton and Ipiutak, that it replaced in Alaska. Recent excavations at Cape Nome, Alaska, h…
Netsilik Eskimo Material Culture: The Roald Amundsen Collection from King William Island
Whales, Ice, and Men: The History of Whaling in the Western Arctic
A prehistoric population change in the Bering Strait region
The Birnirk culture is important in Inupiak Eskimo prehistory because the Thule and Western Thule cultures and all recent prehistoric Eskimo cultures derive from it. Its appearance on the American side of Bering Strait has puzzled archaeologists because it is linked to the cultures of the Asian side of the strait and is not lineally related to the cultures, Norton and Ipiutak, that it replaced in Alaska. Recent excavations at Cape Nome, Alaska, h…
Journey by umiak from Cape Nome, Alaska, to Cape Bathurst, Northwest Territories, 1972
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
George Peard's journal kept on HMS Blossom , 1825–28
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Contacts between American Whalemen and the Copper Eskimos
It has often been maintained that the Copper Eskimos did not have contacts with white men between the early eighteen fifties and the first decade of the twentieth century. The earliest recent encounters are generally believed to have occurred in 1902, when David Hanbury conducted explorations on the mainland near Coronation Gulf, and in 1905-06 and 1907-08, when Christian Klengenberg and Captain William Mogg respectively wintered on the schooner …
Netsilik Eskimo Material Culture: The Roald Amundsen Collection from King William Island
The Eskimos of Bering Strait, 1650-1898
A Gazetteer of Whalers' Place-Names for the Bering Strait Region and the Western Arctic
References Useful references for determining geographical names in the Bering Strait region and western Arctic of North America. Canadian Hydrographic Service Pilot of Arctic Canada, Vol. 3, 1968, Ottawa. Defense Mapping Agency Hydrographic Center Sailing Directions (enroute) for the East Coast of the U.S.S.R. , publication 155, Department of Defense, 1972, Washington Findlay, A. G. Directory for Behring's Sea and Coast of Alaska, Bureau of Navig…
Steam Whaling in the Western Arctic
From Davis Strait to Bering Strait: The Arrival of the Commercial Whaling Fleet in North America's Western Arctic
This paper, then, focuses primarily on the whaling industry as a whole and not centrally upon the arctic regions - because the impetus for the arrival of the whaling fleets at the gates of the American Arctic came directly from the economic centers of Europe and America, and only as the result of a concatenation of political and economic events were the fleets drawn to the north. My discussion will not deal specifically with the history of either…
Whales, Ice, and Men: The History of Whaling in the Western Arctic
Whales, Ice, and Men: The History of Whaling in the Western Arctic
Whales, Ice, and Men: The History of Whaling in the Western Arctic
Journal Article Whales, Ice, and Men: The History of Whaling in the Western Arctic Get access Whales, Ice, and Men: The History of Whaling in the Western Arctic. By Bockstoce John R.. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1986. 400 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.) Daniel Vickers Daniel Vickers Memorial University of Newfoundland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar W…
Arctic voyages of the motor-cutter Belvedere , 1983–87
This article summarizes voyages in the western Arctic of North America during four summers 1983–87, in an 18.3 m cutter-rigged steel motor cruiser, for the purpose of research into the history of commercial whaling, sealing and fur trading. Use of a small, self-sufficient sea-going boat allows access into the small harbours and coves where relics of commerce from the sailing-ship and early steam-ship eras are mostly found
Whales, Ice, and Men: The History of Whaling in the Western Arctic
Froelich Gladstone Rainey (1907-92)
Froelich Rainey, one of the central figures in the development of arctic archaeology, died on 11 October 1992. He was a leader in world archaeology and had made important discoveries on four continents during a career that spanned half a century; yet it was his early work, in Alaska, that he regarded as his most significant research
The Opening of the Maritime Fur Trade at Bering Strait: Americans and Russians Meet the 'Kanjġmiut' in Kotzebue Sound
John R. Bockstoce, The Opening of the Maritime Fur Trade at Bering Strait: Americans and Russians Meet the 'Kanjġmiut' in Kotzebue Sound, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, Vol. 95, No. 1 (2005), pp. i-v, vii, ix-xii, 1-29, 31-51, 53-59, 61-71, 73-78
Furs and Frontiers in the Far North: The Contest among Native and Foreign Nations for the Bering Strait Fur Trade
Sea-Ice Distribution in the Bering and Chukchi Seas: Information from Historical Whaleships’ Logbooks and Journals
Satellite data have revealed dramatic losses of Northern Hemisphere sea ice since the end of the 1970s. To place these changes in a longer-term context, we draw on daily observations taken from logbooks and journals of whaling vessels cruising in the Bering and Chukchi seas to investigate sea-ice conditions in this region of the Arctic between 1850 and 1910. We compare these observations to sea-ice data from 1972 to 1982, which predate the majori…
Conversations with Tiger: Forty Years of Dialogue . . . and One Uncompleted Project
John R. Bockstoce⇑ John R. Bockstoce, New Bedford Whaling Museum Address for correspondence: 1 Hill Street, South Dartmouth, MA 02784–3410; john_r_bockstoce{at}msn.com
White Fox and Icy Seas in the Western Arctic: The Fur Trade, Transportation, and Change in the Early Twentieth Century
White Fox and Icy Seas in the Western Arctic: The Fur Trade, Transportation, and Change in the Early Twentieth Century
This book examines the challenges that confronted the peoples of the Western Arctic in the early twentieth century, a result of the collapse of the whaling industry and the nearly simultaneous rise of the market for white fox skins. The fur trade created temporary wealth for the Northerners and induced population movements throughout the region. When the price of white fox skins declined during the 1930s these peoples, who had dispersed for trapp…
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