Publication

2014-09-19 - Palgrave Macmillan

Language

English

Word Count

70,000 words, Guess

Page Count

280 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101137333928
  • ISBN-139781137333926
  • Library of Congress Control Number2014011618
  • OCLC Control Number885092549
  • Better World Books9781137333926
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCQC992.A1 C57 2014
  • LCCHN8-HN19G1-922D1-DX3

Description

"Offering important new historical understandings of human responses to climate and climate change, this cutting-edge volume explores the dynamic relationship between settlement, climate, and colonization. The contributions gathered here consider a wide range of interrelated topics, among them the use of scientific evidence in historical research, the physical impact of climate on agriculture and land development, and changing understandings of climate, including the development of "folk" and government meteorologies. They reveal Australasia to be a remarkably varied and fertile area for analyzing cultural responses to climate as well as the wider social ramifications of historical climatic events"--

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Climate, Science, and Colonization: Histories from Australia and New ZealandHardcoverPalgrave Macmillan2014-09-19

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