Anya Zilberstein

A Temperate Empire

Making Climate Change in Early America

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780190206598
• ISBN-10: 0190206594
• Artikelnr.: 47863561

Autorenporträt

Anya Zilberstein is Associate Professor of History at Concordia University in Montreal.

Inhaltsangabe

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