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Climate, Science, and Colonization

Histories from Australia and New Zealand

  • James Beattie
  • Emily O’Gorman
  • Matthew Henry
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Part of the Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology book series (PSHST)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction
      James Beattie, Emily O’Gorman, Matthew Henry
      Pages 1-16

  3. Frames, Events, and Responses

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 17-17
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    2. Australasia: An Overview of Modern Climate and Paleoclimate during the Last Glacial Maximum
      Andrew M. Lorrey, Helen C. Bostock
      Pages 19-42
    3. “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
      Claire Fenby, Don Garden, Joëlle Gergis
      Pages 43-59
    4. Extreme Weather and ENSO: Their Social and Cultural Ramifications in New Zealand and Australia in the 1890s
      Don Garden
      Pages 61-80
    5. Pioneer Settlers Recognizing and Responding to the Climatic Challenges of Southern New Zealand
      Peter Holland, Jim Williams
      Pages 81-96

  4. Debating Human Effects

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 97-97
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    2. “For the sake of a little grass”: A Comparative History of Settler Science and Environmental Limits in South Australia and the Great Plains
      Kirsty Douglas
      Pages 99-117
    3. Debating the Climatological Role of Forests in Australia, 1827–1949: A Survey of the Popular Press
      Stephen Legg
      Pages 119-136
    4. Science, Religion, and Drought: Rainmaking Experiments and Prayers in North Otago, 1889–1911
      James Beattie
      Pages 137-155

  5. Climate Understandings

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 157-157
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    2. Farming on the Fringe: Agriculture and Climate Variability in the Western Australian Wheat Belt, 1890s to 1980s
      Ruth A. Morgan
      Pages 159-176
    3. “Soothsaying” or “Science?”: H. C. Russell, Meteorology, and Environmental Knowledge of Rivers in Colonial Australia
      Emily O’Gorman
      Pages 177-193
    4. Imported Understandings: Calendars, Weather, and Climate in Tropical Australia, 1870s–1940s
      Chris O’Brien
      Pages 195-211
    5. Destabilizing Narratives of the “Triumph of the White Man over the Tropics”: Scientific Knowledge and the Management of Race in Queensland, 1900–1940
      Meg Parsons
      Pages 213-231
    6. Australasian Airspace: Meteorology, and the Practical Geopolitics of Australasian Airspace, 1935–1940
      Matthew Henry
      Pages 233-249

  6. Epilogue: Future Research Directions

    1. Epilogue: Future Research Directions
      Emily O’Gorman, James Beattie, Matthew Henry
      Pages 251-253
  7. Back Matter
    Pages 255-280
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About this book

Introduction

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.

Keywords

Australia climate geopolitics history meteorology

Editors and affiliations

  • James Beattie
  • Emily O’Gorman
    • 1
  • Matthew Henry
    • 2
  1. 1.Department of Environment and GeographyMacquarie UniversityAustralia
  2. 2.Massey University’s Resource and Environmental Planning Programme basedPalmerston NorthNew Zealand

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137333933
  • Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2014
  • Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, New York
  • eBook Packages Palgrave History Collection
  • Print ISBN 978-1-349-46245-2
  • Online ISBN 978-1-137-33393-3
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