Weather, Climate, and the Geographical Imagination : Placing Atmospheric Knowledges.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (377 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Weather, Climate, and the Geographical Imagination | Martin Mahony and Samuel Randalls -- Part I. Spaces of Observation -- 1. Atmospheric Empire: Historical Geographies of Meteorology at the Colonial Observatories | Simon Naylor and Matthew Goodman -- 2. Imperial Oscillations: Gilbert Walker and the Construction of the Southern Oscillation | George Adamson -- 3. The Weather Ship: Networks, Disasters, and Imaginaries after 1945 | Katharine Anderson -- 4. Looking for the Leeuwin: An Environmental History of the Leeuwin Current | Ruth A. Morgan -- Part II. Horizons of Expectation -- 5. Imagined Geographies of Climate and Race in Anglophone Life Assurance c. 1840-1930 | James Kneale and Samuel Randalls -- 6. The British Women's Emigration Association and Climate(s) of South Africa | Georgina Endfield -- 7. Race and Rainmaking in the Twentieth-Century Southern Africa | Meredith McKittrick -- 8. Weather, Climate, and the Colonial Imagination: Meteorology and the End of Empire | Martin Mahony -- Part III. Atmospheric Engtanglements -- 9. Darwinian Hippocratics, Eugenic Enticements, and the Biometeorological Body | David N. Livingstone -- 10. Civilization, Climate, and Ozone: Ellsworth Huntington's "Big" Views on Biophysics, Biocosmics, and Biocracy | James Rodger Fleming -- 11. 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 -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.