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A temperate empire : making climate change in early America / Anya Zilberstein.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2016]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780190206604
  • 0190206608
  • 9780190206628
  • 0190206624
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Temperate empire.DDC classification:
  • 304.2/5097409033 23
LOC classification:
  • QC903.2.N665 Z55 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover; A Temperate Empire; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Improving the Climate; Part I: Climate and Geography; 1. The Golden Mean; A Different Latitude; The Northern Temperate Zone; Natural and Political Histories of the Northeast; 2. Transatlantic Networks and the Geography of Climate Knowledge; Inquisitive Minds; Colonies of the Republic of Letters; Brethren in Science; Exchanges; Family Networks; On the Margins; Part II: Climate and Colonialism; 3. An American Siberia; Population and Depopulation; "A Colder and Less Plentifull Country than New England."
The Poor Man's Dung 4. Jamaicans In and Out of Nova Scotia; Jamaica to the Maroons; In and Out of Nova Scotia; Human Geography and Climate; Wentworth on Climate, Slavery, and Race; Empire Without Slaves in the North; 5. Works in Progress; The Energetic Hands of Britons; Fieldwork; Modern Winters; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Summary: 'A Temperate Empire' explores how early North American settlers understood the widespread process of climate warming and tried to remake local climates through colonial settlement and economic development.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; A Temperate Empire; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Improving the Climate; Part I: Climate and Geography; 1. The Golden Mean; A Different Latitude; The Northern Temperate Zone; Natural and Political Histories of the Northeast; 2. Transatlantic Networks and the Geography of Climate Knowledge; Inquisitive Minds; Colonies of the Republic of Letters; Brethren in Science; Exchanges; Family Networks; On the Margins; Part II: Climate and Colonialism; 3. An American Siberia; Population and Depopulation; "A Colder and Less Plentifull Country than New England."

The Poor Man's Dung 4. Jamaicans In and Out of Nova Scotia; Jamaica to the Maroons; In and Out of Nova Scotia; Human Geography and Climate; Wentworth on Climate, Slavery, and Race; Empire Without Slaves in the North; 5. Works in Progress; The Energetic Hands of Britons; Fieldwork; Modern Winters; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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'A Temperate Empire' explores how early North American settlers understood the widespread process of climate warming and tried to remake local climates through colonial settlement and economic development.

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