Degrees:
BA Stanford University 1958; MA, PhD University of California at Berkeley
1960, 1965
Teaching Specialties: Modern European history, Middle East, maritime
and military history
Research Interests: Military elites (any era), maritime history
of California, Indian Ocean area in history
Publications: Fur Traders from New England: The Boston Men, 1787-1800,
with Barry M. Gough (1997), "Whaling Will Never Do For Me":
The 1846 Journal of Captain William Dane Phelps (1987), The War Against
the Seals: A History of The North American Seal Fishery (1985); numerous
articles and reviews in Labour/Le Travail, Middle East Journal, Asian
Affairs, American Historical Review, International History Review, Harvard
Business History Review, New England Quarterly, Oceans, Journal of Canadian
Albion, Hawaiian Journal of History, Pacific Northwest Quarterly, American
Journal of Canadian Studies, Journal of the Early Republic, Journal
of Military History, Arctic, Northern Mariner, British Journal of Middle
East Study, Mariner's Mirror, Great Circle, Muslim World, Journal of
Transport History
Professional Experience: Research Associate in history at the
University of Nairobi 1965-66
Distinctions: Book review editor, The American Neptune 1991-
; Recipient of several fellowships including Woodrow Wilson Foundation
Traveling Fellow, NEH Junior Fellow, Social Science Research Council
Fellow; Fellow of the Middle East Studies Association and the Royal
Society of Asian Affairs; past president, North American Society for
Oceanic History (1994-1998); Excecutive Council, International Commission
for Maritime History (1997-2000); Board of Overseers, Kendall Whaling
Museum
