Cover; A Temperate Empire; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Improving the Climate; Part I: Climate and Geography; 1. The Golden Mean; A Different Latitude; The Northern Temperate Zone; Natural and Political Histories of the Northeast; 2. Transatlantic Networks and the Geography of Climate Knowledge; Inquisitive Minds; Colonies of the Republic of Letters; Brethren in Science; Exchanges; Family Networks; On the Margins; Part II: Climate and Colonialism; 3. An American Siberia; Population and Depopulation; "A Colder and Less Plentifull Country than New England."
The Poor Man's Dung 4. Jamaicans In and Out of Nova Scotia; Jamaica to the Maroons; In and Out of Nova Scotia; Human Geography and Climate; Wentworth on Climate, Slavery, and Race; Empire Without Slaves in the North; 5. Works in Progress; The Energetic Hands of Britons; Fieldwork; Modern Winters; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
'A Temperate Empire' explores how early North American settlers understood the widespread process of climate warming and tried to remake local climates through colonial settlement and economic development
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 12, 2016)
