Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: 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.