Climate, Science, and Colonization [electronic resource] : Histories from Australia and New Zealand /
O'Gorman, Emily.author.
Henry, Matthew.author.
Beattie, J.editor.
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.
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"
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
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
Epilogue: Future Research DirectionsIndex
Includes index.
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.
Social history.
Geography.
History.
Environmental geography.
Asia—History.
Southeast Asia—History.
Social History.
Geography, general.
History of Science.
Environmental Geography.
Asian History.
History of Southeast Asia.