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Climate, Science, and Colonization

Histories from Australia and New Zealand

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. James Beattie
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  2. Emily O’Gorman

    1. Department of Environment and Geography, Macquarie University, Australia

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  3. Matthew Henry

    1. Massey University’s Resource and Environmental Planning Programme based, Palmerston North, New Zealand

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

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

  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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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Environment and Geography, Macquarie University, Australia

    Emily O’Gorman

  • Massey University’s Resource and Environmental Planning Programme based, Palmerston North, New Zealand

    Matthew Henry

About the editors

Andrew Lorrey, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, New Zealand Helen C. Bostock, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, New Zealand Kirsty Douglad, Australian Academy of Science, Australia Claire Fenby, University of Melbourne, Australia Joëlle Gergis, University of Melbourne, Australia Don Garden, University of Melbourne, Australia Peter Holland, University of Otago, New Zealand Stephen Legg, Monash University, Australia James Beattie, University of Waikato, New Zealand Ruth Morgan, The University of Western Australia Emily O'Gorman, University of Wollongong, Australia Christian O'Brien, Australian National University Matthew Henry, Massey University, New Zealand Meg Parsons, University of Auckland, New Zealand Jim Williams, University of Otago, New Zealand

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