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_cIWA
050 _aQC861.3
_b.W438 2020
245 0 0 _aWeather, climate, and the geographical imagination :
_bplacing atmospheric knowledges /
_cedited by Martin Mahony and Samuel Randalls.
260 _aPittsburgh, Pa. :
_bUniversity of Pittsburgh Press,
_cc2020.
300 _avii, 368 p. :
_bill., maps.
490 1 _aIntersections: environment, science, technology
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: 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.
650 4 _aClimatology
_xSocial aspects.
650 4 _aClimatic changes
_xSocial aspects.
650 4 _aWeather
_xEffect of human beings on.
650 4 _aHuman geography.
700 1 _aMahony, Martin
_c(Environmental scientist)
700 1 _aRandalls, Samuel.
830 0 _aIntersections (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
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