Of planting and planning : the making of British colonial cities / / Robert Home

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910786050603321
• Autore: Home Robert K.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• ISBN: 9780203384763 (e-book); 9780415540537 (hbk.); 9780415540544 (pbk.); 1-135-94589-6; 1-283-97297-2; 0-203-38476-8; 1-135-94582-9
• Edizione: [2nd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 260 p.) : ill
• Collana: Planning, history and environment series
• Disciplina: 307.12160941
• Soggetti: City planning - Great Britain - Colonies - History; Architecture, British - Developing countries; Vernacular architecture - Developing countries; Great Britain Colonies Administration
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: First published by 1997 by Spon.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface to the first edition -- Preface to the second edition -- Glossary -- Year of independence and population of the main British colonies -- Introduction : the chief exporter of municipalities -- 1. The "Grand modell" of colonial settlement -- 2. "Planting is my trade" : the shapers of colonial urban landscapes -- 3. Port cities of the British empire : "a global thalassocracy" -- 4. The "warehousing" of the labouring classes -- 5. "The inconvenience felt by Europeans" : racial segregation, its rise and fall -- 6. "Miracle-worker to the people" : the idea of town planning, 1910-1935 -- 7. "This novel legislation" : institutionalizing town planning, 1900-1950 -- 8. "What kind of country do you want?" : the transition to independence -- Conclusions: the legacy of colonial town planning -- References -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: ‘At the centre of the world-economy, one always finds an exceptional ; state, strong, aggressive and privileged, dynamic, simultaneously feared and admired.’ - Fernand Braudel, Civilization and Capitalism, 15th–18th Centuries. This, surely, is an apt description of the British Empire at its zenith. Of Planting and Planning explores how Britain used the formation of towns and cities as an instrument of colonial expansion and control throughout the Empire. Beginning with the seventeenth-century plantation of Ulster and ending with decolonization after the Second World War, Robert Home reveals how the British Empire gave rise to many of the biggest cities in the world and how colonial policy and planning had a profound impact on the form and functioning of those cities. This second edition retains the thematic, chronological and interdisciplinary approach of the first, each chapter identifying a key element of colonial town planning. New material and illustrations have been added, incorporating the author's further research since the first edition. Most importantly, Of Planting and Planning remains the only book to cover the whole sweep of British colonial urbanism.

British weather and the climate of enlightenment [[electronic resource] /] / Jan Golinski

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785445003321
• Autore: Golinski Jan
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007
• ISBN: 1-282-90189-3; 9786612901898; 0-226-30206-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (301 p.)
• Classificazione: NN 5000
• Disciplina: 551.50941/09033
• Soggetti: Meteorology - Great Britain - History; Weather; Climatology; Great Britain Climate
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-268) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Experiencing the weather in 1703 -- The "exquisite atmography" and its author -- The atmosphere and the earth -- Clouds in the head -- Public weather and the culture of enlightenment -- The great storm in public debate -- Providence and the British climate -- Conversation and weather lore -- Recording and forecasting -- The discipline of the diary -- The calendar and the seasons -- Forecasting by the heavens -- Barometers of enlightenment -- The genealogy of weather instruments -- The instrument trade and consumers -- Interpreting the "oraculous glasses" -- Sensibility and climatic pathology -- The hippocratic revival -- Aerial sensitivity and social change -- The politics of atmospheric reform -- Climate and civilization -- The enlightenment debate on climate -- Medicine and the colonial situation -- America: climate and destiny -- Conclusion: the science of weather.
• Sommario/riassunto: Enlightenment inquiries into the weather sought to impose order on a force that had the power to alter human life and social conditions. British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment reveals how a new sense of the national climate emerged in the eighteenth century from the systematic recording of the weather, and how it was deployed in discussions of the health and welfare of the population. Enlightened intellectuals hailed climate's role in the development of civilization but acknowledged that human existence depended on natural forces that would never submit to rationa