Article ID: CBB001032327

Chilling Allahabad: Climate Control and the Production of Anglicized Weather in Early Modern India (2008)

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Sudan, Rajani (Author)


Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies
Volume: 8, no. 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 56-73


Publication Date: 2008
Edition Details: Part of a special issue: “Eco-historicism”
Language: English

Description Concerns ideas about ice making and climate control to make India more like England.


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Article Wood, Gillen D'Arcy (2008) Eco-historicism. Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies (pp. 1-7). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Oomen, Jeroen
Yuriko Furuhata
Biswanath Dash
Sinha, Arvind
Kraker, Adriaan de
Wood, Gillen D'Arcy
Journals
Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Osiris: A Research Journal Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
Journal of Medical Biography
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
University of Chicago Press
University of North Carolina Press
Routledge
Museu de Astronomia e Ciências Afins (MAST)
Duke University Press
Columbia University Press
Concepts
Climate and climatology
Environmental sciences
Weather control
Colonialism
Weather
Great Britain, colonies
People
Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, Baron de
Raffles, Thomas Stamford
Friedman, Robert Marc
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
17th century
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
Places
Great Britain
India
Atlantic world
Flanders
Atlantic Ocean
England
Institutions
Royal Society of London
British East India Company
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