Climate, Science, and Colonization

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • James Beattie, Emily O’Gorman, Matthew Henry

      Pages 1-16

3. Frames, Events, and Responses

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. Australasia: An Overview of Modern Climate and Paleoclimate during the Last Glacial Maximum

      • Andrew M. Lorrey, Helen C. Bostock

      Pages 19-42

   3. “The usual weather in New South Wales is uncommonly bright and clear … equal to the finest summer day in England”: Flood and Drought in New South Wales, 1788–1815

      • Claire Fenby, Don Garden, Joëlle Gergis

      Pages 43-59

   4. Extreme Weather and ENSO: Their Social and Cultural Ramifications in New Zealand and Australia in the 1890s

      • Don Garden

      Pages 61-80

   5. Pioneer Settlers Recognizing and Responding to the Climatic Challenges of Southern New Zealand

      • Peter Holland, Jim Williams

      Pages 81-96

4. Debating Human Effects

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97

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   2. “For the sake of a little grass”: A Comparative History of Settler Science and Environmental Limits in South Australia and the Great Plains

      • Kirsty Douglas

      Pages 99-117

   3. Debating the Climatological Role of Forests in Australia, 1827–1949: A Survey of the Popular Press

      • Stephen Legg

      Pages 119-136

   4. Science, Religion, and Drought: Rainmaking Experiments and Prayers in North Otago, 1889–1911

      • James Beattie

      Pages 137-155

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.

• Australia
• climate
• geopolitics
• history
• meteorology
• Environmental Geography

• 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

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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