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Weather, climate, and the geographical imagination : placing atmospheric knowledges / / edited by Martin Mahony and Samuel Randalls
| Weather, climate, and the geographical imagination : placing atmospheric knowledges / / edited by Martin Mahony and Samuel Randalls |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Pittsburgh, Pa. : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , [2020] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (vii, 368 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 304.25 |
| Collana | Intersections: environment, science, technology |
| Soggetto topico |
Climatology - Social aspects
Climatic changes - Social aspects |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-8229-8755-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910480437503321 |
| Pittsburgh, Pa. : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , [2020] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Weather, climate, and the geographical imagination : placing atmospheric knowledges / / edited by Martin Mahony and Samuel Randalls
| Weather, climate, and the geographical imagination : placing atmospheric knowledges / / edited by Martin Mahony and Samuel Randalls |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Pittsburgh, Pa. : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , [2020] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (vii, 368 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 304.25 |
| Collana | Intersections: environment, science, technology |
| Soggetto topico |
Climatology - Social aspects
Climatic changes - Social aspects |
| ISBN | 0-8229-8755-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Weather, Climate, and the Geographical Imagination / Martin Mahony and Samuel Randalls -- Part 1: Spaces of Observation. Atmospheric Empire: Historical Geographies of Meteorology at the Colonial Observatories / Simon Naylor and Matthew Goodman -- Imperial Oscillations: Gilbert Walker and the Construction of the Southern Oscillation / George Adamson -- The Weather Ship: Networks, Disasters, and Imaginaries after 1945 / Katharine Anderson -- Looking for the Leeuwin: An Environmental History of the Leeuwin Current / Ruth A. Morgan -- Part 2: Horizons of Expectation. Imagined Geographies of Climate and Race in Anglophone Life Assurance c. 1840-1930 / James Kneale and Samuel Randalls -- The British Women's Emigration Association and Climate(s) of South Africa / Georgina Endfield -- Race and Rainmaking in the Twentieth-Century Southern Africa / Meredith McKittrick -- Weather, Climate, and the Colonial Imagination: Meteorology and the End of Empire / Martin Mahony -- Part 3: Atmospheric Engtanglements. Darwinian Hippocratics, Eugenic Enticements, and the Biometeorological Body / David N. Livingstone -- Civilization, Climate, and Ozone: Ellsworth Huntington's "Big" Views on Biophysics, Biocosmics, and Biocracy / James Rodger Fleming -- The Shaded Modernism of the Global Interior: Climate and Risk in the Architecture of MMM Roberto, Rio de Janeiro, 1936-1955 / Daniel A. Barber -- Afterword: Historiographies and Geographies of Climate / Mike Hulme. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910794141503321 |
| Pittsburgh, Pa. : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , [2020] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Weather, climate, and the geographical imagination : placing atmospheric knowledges / / edited by Martin Mahony and Samuel Randalls
| Weather, climate, and the geographical imagination : placing atmospheric knowledges / / edited by Martin Mahony and Samuel Randalls |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Pittsburgh, Pa. : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , [2020] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (vii, 368 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 304.25 |
| Collana | Intersections: environment, science, technology |
| Soggetto topico |
Climatology - Social aspects
Climatic changes - Social aspects |
| ISBN | 0-8229-8755-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Weather, Climate, and the Geographical Imagination / Martin Mahony and Samuel Randalls -- Part 1: Spaces of Observation. Atmospheric Empire: Historical Geographies of Meteorology at the Colonial Observatories / Simon Naylor and Matthew Goodman -- Imperial Oscillations: Gilbert Walker and the Construction of the Southern Oscillation / George Adamson -- The Weather Ship: Networks, Disasters, and Imaginaries after 1945 / Katharine Anderson -- Looking for the Leeuwin: An Environmental History of the Leeuwin Current / Ruth A. Morgan -- Part 2: Horizons of Expectation. Imagined Geographies of Climate and Race in Anglophone Life Assurance c. 1840-1930 / James Kneale and Samuel Randalls -- The British Women's Emigration Association and Climate(s) of South Africa / Georgina Endfield -- Race and Rainmaking in the Twentieth-Century Southern Africa / Meredith McKittrick -- Weather, Climate, and the Colonial Imagination: Meteorology and the End of Empire / Martin Mahony -- Part 3: Atmospheric Engtanglements. Darwinian Hippocratics, Eugenic Enticements, and the Biometeorological Body / David N. Livingstone -- Civilization, Climate, and Ozone: Ellsworth Huntington's "Big" Views on Biophysics, Biocosmics, and Biocracy / James Rodger Fleming -- The Shaded Modernism of the Global Interior: Climate and Risk in the Architecture of MMM Roberto, Rio de Janeiro, 1936-1955 / Daniel A. Barber -- Afterword: Historiographies and Geographies of Climate / Mike Hulme. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818668803321 |
| Pittsburgh, Pa. : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , [2020] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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