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Climate, Science, and Colonization: Histories from Australia and New Zealand(Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology)

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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.

Table of Contents:
PART I: FRAMES 1. Overview: Themes in Climate, Empire, and Science; Georgina Endfield and Sam Randalls 2. Australasia Palaeoclimate during the Last Glacial Maximum and the Holocene; Andrew M. Lorrey PART II: EVENTS 3. "The usual weather in New South Wales is uncommonly bright and clear... equal to the finest summer day in England": Climate and Weather in New South Wales, 1788-1815; Claire Fenby, Joelle Gergis, and Don Garden 4. It Isn't Always ENSO: The Extreme Weather in New Zealand and Australia, 1895-98; Don Garden 5. Climatic Challenges to Agriculture and Settlement in Southern New Zealand, 1850-1900: Science, Models, and Good Practice; Peter Holland PART III: HUMAN CLIMATIC CHANGE 6. Debating the Climatological Role of Forests in Colonial Victoria and South Australia; Stephen Legg 7. Rainmaking Experiments and Rainmaking Prayers: Science, Religion, and Nature in Australasia; James Beattie 8. Drawing Goyder's Line: Climate, Wheat Farming, and the Limits of Settlement in South Australia; David Walker PART IV: CLIMATE UNDERSTANDINGS 9. Settling the Seasons: Understanding Climatic Variability in the Southwest of Western Australia, 1829-2007; Ruth Morgan 10. "Soothsaying" or "Science"?: Meteorology and Environmental Knowledge in Colonial Australia; Emily O'Gorman 11. Imported Understandings: Calendars, Weather, and Climate in Tropical Australia; Christian O'Brien 12. Australasian Airspace: Meteorology and the Practical Geopolitics of Australasian Airspace, 1935-40; Matthew Henry

About the Author :
James Beattie is a Senior Lecturer in the History Programme at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. Matthew Henry is a Senior Lecturer in the Resource and Environmental Planning Programme, Massey University, New Zealand. Emily O'Gorman is a Lecturer in the Department of Environment and Geography at Macquarie University, Australia


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  • ISBN-13: 9781137333933
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
  • ISBN-10: 1137333936
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Histories from Australia and New Zealand


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