Climate, science, and colonization : histories from Australia and New Zealand /
Offering compelling and 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, am...
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New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2014
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Climate, Science, and Colonization: Histories from Australia and New Zealand / James Beattie, Emily O'Gorman, and Matthew Henry
- Part I. Frames, Events, and Responses: chapter 1 Australasia: An Overview pf Modern Climate and Paleoclimate during the Last Glacial Maximum / Andrew M. Lorrey and Helen C. Bostock; chapter 2. "The usual weather in New South Wales is uncommonly bright and clear ... equal to the finest summer day in England": Flood and Drought in New South Wales, 1788-1815 / Claire Fenby, Don Garden, and Joëlle Gergis; chapter 3. Extreme Weather and ENSO: Their Social and Cultural Ramifications in New Zealand and Australia, 1890s / Don Garden; chapter 4. Pioneer Settlers Recognizing and Responding to the Climatic Challenges of Southern New Zealand / Peter Holland and Jim Williams
- 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 Australia and the Great Plains / Kirsty Douglas; chapter 6. Debating the Climatological Role of Forests in Australia, 1827-1949: A Survey of the Popular Press / Stephen Legg ; chapter 7. Science, Religion and Drought: Rainmaking Experiments and Rainmaking Prayers in North Otago, 1889-1911 / James Beattie
- Part III. Climate Understandings: chapter 8. Farming on the Fringe: Agriculture and Climate Variability in the Western Australian Wheat Belt, 1890s to 1980s / Ruth A. Morgan; chapter 9. "Soothsaying" or "Science?": H.D. Russell, Meteorology, and Environmental Knowledge of Rivers in Colonial Australia / Emily O'Gorman; chapter 10. Imported Understandings: Calendars, Weather, and Climate in Tropical Australia, 1870s-1940s / Christian O'Brien; chapter 11 Destabilizing Narrative of the "Triumph of the White Man over the Tropics": Scientific Knowledge and the Management of Race in Queensland, 1900-1940 / Meg Parsons; chapter 12. Australasian Airspace: Meteorology and the Practical Geopolitics of Australasian Airspace, 1935-1940 / Matthew Henry
- Epilogue: Future Research Directions / Emily O'Gorman, James Beattie, and Matthew Henry.