Climate, science, and colonization histories from Australia and New Zealand / [electronic resource] :

• 作者： Beattie, James, ed.
• 其他作者：
  • Henry, Matthew, 1662-1714. ed.
  • O'Gorman, Emily, ed.
• 出版： Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan :[distributor] Not Avail
• 版本：1st ed.
• 叢書名： Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology
• 主題： Human beings--Effect of climate on--Australia. , Human beings--Effect of climate on--New Zealand. , Australasian & Pacific history--Australia--New Zealand. , Historical geography--Australia--New Zealand. , History , Social & cultural history--Australia--New Zealand. , Australia--Climate. , New Zealand--Climate.
• ISBN： 1137333936 (electronic bk.): £60.00 、 9781137333926 、 9781137333933 (electronic bk.): £60.00
• FIND@SFXID: CGU
• 資料類型: 電子書
• 內容註: 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. Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9781137333926.
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• 摘要註: Offering new historical understandings of human responses to climate and climate change, this cutting-edge volume explores the dynamic relationship between settlement, climate, and colonization, covering everything from the physical impact of climate on agriculture and land development to the development of folk and government meteorologies.
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