LEADER 05376nam 22008775 450 001 9910672474003321 005 20201105193037.0 010 $a1-349-46245-4 010 $a1-137-33394-4 010 $a1-137-33393-6 024 7 $a10.1057/9781137333933 035 $a(CKB)2670000000569686 035 $a(EBL)1809226 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001347201 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11869137 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001347201 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11350271 035 $a(PQKB)10576526 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1809226 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-137-33393-3 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000569686 100 $a20151130d2014 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aClimate, Science, and Colonization$b[electronic resource] $eHistories from Australia and New Zealand /$fby Emily O'Gorman, Matthew Henry ; edited by J. Beattie 205 $a1st ed. 2014. 210 1$aNew York :$cPalgrave Macmillan US :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (305 p.) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology,$x2730-972X 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-322-16898-9 311 $a1-137-33392-8 327 $aCover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction Climate, Science, and Colonization: Histories from Australia and New Zealand; Part I Frames, Events, and Responses; Chapter 1 Australasia: An Overview of Modern Climate and Paleoclimate during the Last Glacial Maximum; Chapter 2 "The usual weather in New South Wales is uncommonly bright and clear.......equal to the finest summer day in England" 327 $aChapter 3 Extreme Weather and ENSO: Their Social and Cultural Ramifications in New Zealand and Australia in the 1890sChapter 4 Pioneer Settlers Recognizing and Responding to the Climatic Challenges of Southern New Zealand; Part II Debating Human Effects; Chapter 5 "For the sake of a little grass": A Comparative History of Settler Science and Environmental Limits in South Austr; Chapter 6 Debating the Climatological Role of Forests in Australia, 1827-1949: ; Chapter 7 Science, Religion, and Drought: Rainmaking Experiments and Prayers in North Otago, 1889-1911*; Part III Climate Understandings 327 $aChapter 8 Farming on the Fringe: Agriculture and Climate Variability in the Western Australian Wheat Belt, 1890s to 1980s*Chapter 9 "Soothsaying" or "Science?": H. C. Russell, Meteorology, and Environmental Knowledge of Rivers in Colonial Australi; Chapter 10 Imported Understandings: Calendars, Weather, and Climate in Tropical Australia, 1870s-1940s; Chapter 11 Destabilizing Narratives of the "Triumph of the White Man over the Tropics"*: Scientific Knowledge and the Manage; Chapter 12 Australasian Airspace: Meteorology, and the Practical Geopolitics of Australasian Airspace, 1935-1940 327 $aEpilogue: Future Research DirectionsIndex 330 $aOffering new historical understandings of human responses to climate and climate change, this cutting-edge volume explores the dynamic relationship between settlement, climate, and colonization, covering everything from the physical impact of climate on agriculture and land development to the development of "folk" and government meteorologies. 410 0$aPalgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology,$x2730-972X 606 $aSocial history 606 $aGeography 606 $aHistory 606 $aEnvironmental geography 606 $aAsia?History 606 $aSoutheast Asia?History 606 $aSocial History$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/724000 606 $aGeography, general$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/J00000 606 $aHistory of Science$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/731000 606 $aEnvironmental Geography$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/J19010 606 $aAsian History$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/715000 606 $aHistory of Southeast Asia$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/715050 607 $aAustralia$xClimate$xSocial aspects 607 $aNew Zealand$xClimate$xSocial aspects 615 0$aSocial history. 615 0$aGeography. 615 0$aHistory. 615 0$aEnvironmental geography. 615 0$aAsia?History. 615 0$aSoutheast Asia?History. 615 14$aSocial History. 615 24$aGeography, general. 615 24$aHistory of Science. 615 24$aEnvironmental Geography. 615 24$aAsian History. 615 24$aHistory of Southeast Asia. 676 $a304.2/50994 686 $aHIS004000$aHIS048000$aHIS052000$aHIS054000$2bisacsh 700 $aO'Gorman$b Emily$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01334890 702 $aHenry$b Matthew$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 702 $aBeattie$b J$4edt$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910672474003321 996 $aClimate, Science, and Colonization$93047524 997 $aUNINA