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Title Climate, science, and colonization : histories from Australia and New Zealand / edited by James Beattie, Emily O'Gorman and Matthew Henry
Published New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

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Series Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology.
Contents PART I: FRAMES -- 1. Overview: Themes in Climate, Empire, and Science; Georgina Endfield and Sam Randalls -- 2. Australasia Palaeoclimate during the Last Glacial Maximum and the Holocene; Andrew M. Lorrey -- PART II: EVENTS -- 3. "The usual weather in New South Wales is uncommonly bright and clear ... equal to the finest summer day in England": Climate and Weather in New South Wales, 1788-1815; Claire Fenby, Jo︠lle Gergis, and Don Garden -- 4. It Isn't Always ENSO: The Extreme Weather in New Zealand and Australia, 1895-98; Don Garden -- 5. Climatic Challenges to Agriculture and Settlement in Southern New Zealand, 1850-1900: Science, Models, and Good Practice; Peter Holland -- PART III: HUMAN CLIMATIC CHANGE -- 6. Debating the Climatological Role of Forests in Colonial Victoria and South Australia; Stephen Legg -- 7. Rainmaking Experiments and Rainmaking Prayers: Science, Religion, and Nature in Australasia; James Beattie -- 8. Drawing Goyder's Line: Climate, Wheat Farming, and the Limits of Settlement in South Australia; David Walker -- PART IV: CLIMATE UNDERSTANDINGS -- 9. Settling the Seasons: Understanding Climatic Variability in the Southwest of Western Australia, 1829-2007; Ruth Morgan -- 10. "Soothsaying" or "Science"?: Meteorology and Environmental Knowledge in Colonial Australia; Emily O'Gorman -- 11. Imported Understandings: Calendars, Weather, and Climate in Tropical Australia; Christian O'Brien -- 12. Australasian Airspace: Meteorology and the Practical Geopolitics of Australasian Airspace, 1935-40; Matthew Henry
Summary "Offering important new historical understandings of human responses to climate and climate change, this cutting-edge volume explores the dynamic relationship between settlement, climate, and colonization. The contributions gathered here consider a wide range of interrelated topics, among them the use of scientific evidence in historical research, the physical impact of climate on agriculture and land development, and changing understandings of climate, including the development of "folk" and government meteorologies. They reveal Australasia to be a remarkably varied and fertile area for analyzing cultural responses to climate as well as the wider social ramifications of historical climatic events"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Human beings -- Effect of climate on -- Australia
Human beings -- Effect of climate on -- New Zealand
Land settlement -- Environmental aspects -- Australia -- History
Land settlement -- Environmental aspects -- New Zealand -- History
Colonization -- Environmental aspects -- Australia -- History
Colonization -- Environmental aspects -- New Zealand -- History
Climatic changes -- Australia
Climatic changes -- New Zealand
Climate and civilization -- Australia
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
HISTORY -- Australia & New Zealand.
HISTORY -- Asia -- Southeast Asia.
HISTORY -- Historical Geography.
HISTORY -- Social History.
Climate and civilization
Climatic changes
Climatology -- Social aspects
Human beings -- Effect of climate on
Land settlement -- Environmental aspects
SUBJECT Australia -- Climate -- Social aspects
New Zealand -- Climate -- Social aspects
Subject Australia
New Zealand
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Beattie, James, 1977- editor.
Henry, Matthew (Matthew Garth), editor.
O'Gorman, Emily, editor
ISBN 9781137333933
1137333936
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9781349462452
1137333944
9781137333940