placing atmospheric knowledges Mahony, Martin (Environmental scientist) Randalls, Samuel. text bibliography pau Pittsburgh, Pa University of Pittsburgh Press c2020 2020 monographic eng

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vii, 368 p. : ill., maps. 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. edited by Martin Mahony and Samuel Randalls. Includes bibliographical references and index. Climatology Social aspects Climatic changes Social aspects Weather Effect of human beings on Human geography QC861.3 .W438 2020 9780822946168 0822946165 IWA 210312 on1163927656 eng