America's ocean wilderness: a cultural history of twentieth-century exploration

The oceanic hunting grounds of Roy Chapman Andrews: whales as a resource and game in postfrontier America

Robert Cushman Murphy and the national history of ocean islands: conservation and the myth of the inexhaustible ocean frontier

Sensational management: William Beebe and the natural history of the ocean sublime

Rachel Carson's The Sea Around Us: the construction of oceancentrism

Eugenie Clark and postwar ocean ichthyology: gender, oceanic natural history, and the domestication of the ocean frontier

Technophobia and technophilia in the oceanic commons: Thor Heyerdahl and Jacques Cousteau during the American cold war

Conclusion.