Temperate Empire - Making Climate Change in Early America

Zusatztext Why would anyone emigrate to North America in the seventeenth century? Anya Zilberstein complicates our understanding in ... a short exploration of contemporary debates regarding the nature of North American climate and the question of how European and African peoples would adapt to life in the Americas ... A Temperate Empire is a useful contribution to our knowledge of how educated men struggled to make sense of American weather as global empire undermined ancient theory ... Succeeds as a contribution to the wider literature on early modern empire and the fitful rise of science. Informationen zum Autor Anya Zilberstein is Associate Professor of History at Concordia University in Montreal. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction - Improving the Climate Part I: Climate and Geography Chapter 1 - The Golden Mean Chapter 2 - Transatlantic Networks and the Geography of Climate Knowledge Part II: Climate and Colonialism Chapter 3 - An American Siberia Chapter 4 - Jamaicans In and Out of Nova Scotia Chapter 5 - A Work in Progress Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Anya Zilberstein, Anya (Associate Professor of History Zilberstein, Zilberstein Anya
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.01.2017
• EAN: 9780190206598
• ISBN: 978-0-19-020659-8
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Climate Change, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Colonialism & imperialism, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Colonialism and imperialism, History of the Americas