Offering 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, among them the use of scientific evidence in historical research, the physical impact of climate on agriculture and land development, and changing understandings of climate, including the development of "folk" and government meteorologies. They reveal Australasia to be a remarkably varied and fertile area for analyzing cultural responses to climate as well as the wider social ramifications of historical climatic events.
...MoreBook James Beattie; Emily O'Gorman; Matthew Henry (2014) Climate, Science, and Colonization: Histories from Australia and New Zealand.
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James Beattie;
Emily O'Gorman;
Matthew Henry;
(2014)
Introduction: Climate, Science, and Colonization: Histories from Australia and New Zealand
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James Beattie;
Emily O'Gorman;
Matthew Henry;
(2014)
Climate, Science, and Colonization: Histories from Australia and New Zealand
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Matthew Henry;
(2014)
Australasian Airspace: Meteorology and the Practical Geopolitics of Australasian Airspace, 1935-1940
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Peter Holland;
Jim Williams;
(2014)
Pioneer Settlers Recognizing and Responding to the Climatic Challenges of Southern New Zealand
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Andrew M. Lorrey;
Helen C. Bostock;
(2014)
Australasia: An Overview of Modern Climate and Paleoclimate During the Last Glacial Maximum
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Claire Fenby;
Don Garden;
Joëlle Gergis;
(2014)
"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
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Ruth A. Morgan;
(2014)
Farming on the Fringe: Agriculture and Climate Variability in the Western Australian Wheat Belt, 1890s to 1980s
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Don Garden;
(2014)
Extreme Weather and ENSO: Their Social and Cultural Ramifications in New Zealand and Australia, 1890s
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Kirsty Douglas;
(2014)
"For the Sake of a Little Grass": A Comparative History of Settler Science and Environmental Limits in South Australia and the Great Plains
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Stephen Legg;
(2014)
Debating the Climatological Role of Forests in Australia, 1827-1949: A Survey of the Popular Press
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Emily O'Gorman;
James Beattie;
Matthew Henry;
(2014)
Epilogue: Future Research Directions
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Meg Parsons;
(2014)
Destabilizing Narrative of the "Triumph of the White Man over the Tropics": Scientific Knowledge and the Management of Race in Queensland, 1900-1940
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Emily O'Gorman;
(2014)
"Soothsaying" or "Science?": H.D. Russell, Meteorology, and Environmental Knowledge of Rivers in Colonial Australia
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Christian O'Brien;
(2014)
Imported Understandings: Calendars, Weather, and Climate in Tropical Australia, 1870s-1940s
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Beattie, James;
(2011)
Empire and Environmental Anxiety: Health, Science, Art, and Conservation in South Asia and Australasia, 1800--1920
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Morgan, Ruth A.;
(2013)
Histories for an Uncertain Future: Environmental History and Climate Change
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Emily O'Gorman;
James Beattie;
Matthew Henry;
(2016)
Histories of Climate, Science, and Colonization in Australia and New Zealand, 1800–1945
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Catharine Coleborne;
(2015)
Insanity, Identity and Empire: Immigrants and Institutional Confinement in Australia and New Zealand, 1873-1910
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Bruce Tranter;
Libby Lester;
(2015)
Climate Patriots? Concern Over Climate Change and Other Environmental Issues in Australia
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Edward Duyker;
(2014)
Dumont d'Urville: Explorer & Polymath
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