ISBN:
9781137333926
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (305 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Series Statement:
Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Climate, Science, and Colonization : Histories from Australia and New Zealand
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Climate, science, and colonization
DDC:
304.2/50994
Keywords:
Human beings -- Effect of climate on -- Australia
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Human beings -- Effect of climate on -- New Zealand
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Australia -- Climate -- Social aspects
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New Zealand -- Climate -- Social aspects
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Land settlement -- Environmental aspects -- Australia -- History
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Abstract:
〈p 〉Offering new historical understandings of human responses to climate and climate change, this cutting-edge volume explores the dynamic relationship between settlement, climate, and colonization, covering everything from the physical impact of climate on agriculture and land development to the development of ""folk"" and government meteorologies
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction Climate, Science, and Colonization: Histories from Australia and New Zealand; Part I Frames, Events, and Responses; Chapter 1 Australasia: An Overview of Modern Climate and Paleoclimate during the Last Glacial Maximum; Chapter 2 "The usual weather in New South Wales is uncommonly bright and clear.......equal to the finest summer day in England"
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 3 Extreme Weather and ENSO: Their Social and Cultural Ramifications in New Zealand and Australia in the 1890sChapter 4 Pioneer Settlers Recognizing and Responding to the Climatic Challenges of Southern New Zealand; Part II Debating Human Effects; Chapter 5 "For the sake of a little grass": A Comparative History of Settler Science and Environmental Limits in South Austr; Chapter 6 Debating the Climatological Role of Forests in Australia, 1827-1949: ; Chapter 7 Science, Religion, and Drought: Rainmaking Experiments and Prayers in North Otago, 1889-1911*; Part III Climate Understandings
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 8 Farming on the Fringe: Agriculture and Climate Variability in the Western Australian Wheat Belt, 1890s to 1980s*Chapter 9 "Soothsaying" or "Science?": H. C. Russell, Meteorology, and Environmental Knowledge of Rivers in Colonial Australi; Chapter 10 Imported Understandings: Calendars, Weather, and Climate in Tropical Australia, 1870s-1940s; Chapter 11 Destabilizing Narratives of the "Triumph of the White Man over the Tropics"*: Scientific Knowledge and the Manage; Chapter 12 Australasian Airspace: Meteorology, and the Practical Geopolitics of Australasian Airspace, 1935-1940
Description / Table of Contents:
Epilogue: Future Research DirectionsIndex
Note:
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