Jankovic, Vladimir (Author)
The paper looks at how an early eighteenth-century climatological model of the `best climate' on Earth became a platform for political, economic, and demographic action of extraordinary significance for the colonization of new commodity environments. It analyzes the science used by an early modern business adventurer to model `climate' as an economic tool informing imperial governance and exploitation of local resources. Jean Pierre Purry's construction of `model climate' portrayed North Carolina's township at Yamassee River as an ideal environment geared toward mercantilist principles of trade but also as a model community based on skilled labor and optimal climatic capital. His climatological analysis was a purposeful act of policy making based on a science of colonial expansion similar to more recent calls at economic modelling of future climate impact.
...MoreDescription On an 18th-century climatological model and its relation to policy making in colonial North Carolina.
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