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  • Climate, science, and colonization[electronic resource] :histories from Australia and New Zealand /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 994
    書名/作者: Climate, science, and colonization : histories from Australia and New Zealand // Edited by James Beattie, Emily O'Gorman, Matthew Henry.
    作者: Beattie, James,
    其他作者: Henry, Matthew,
    出版者: Basingstoke : : Palgrave Macmillan :, 2014.
    面頁冊數: 304 p.
    附註: Electronic book text.
    標題: Human beings - Effect of climate on - Australia.
    標題: Human beings - Effect of climate on - New Zealand.
    標題: Australasian & Pacific history - Australia
    標題: Historical geography - Australia
    標題: History.
    標題: Social & cultural history - Australia
    標題: Australia - Foreign economic relations - Southeast Asia.
    標題: New Zealand - Climate.
    ISBN: 1137333936 (electronic bk.) :
    ISBN: 9781137333926
    ISBN: 9781137333933 (electronic bk.) :
    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.
    摘要、提要註: 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.
    電子資源: Online journal 'available contents' page
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