Graeme Morton

Weather, Migration and the Scottish Diaspora (eBook, PDF)

Leaving the Cold Country

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The climate reasons, pressures and incentives that led to emigration have been neither straightforward nor uniform The author reviews the significant ways in which environmental change impacted on human behaviour in the two centuries before climate change reached the present point of crisis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000203752
• Artikelnr.: 60026120

Autorenporträt

Graeme Morton is Professor of Modern History at the University of Dundee where he is also Director of the Centre for Scottish Culture. His research is focussed on the study of migration, the Scottish diaspora, national identity and the weather.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Building on Climatic Causation
1. The Weather Watchers
2. Meteorological Periodisation
3. Environmental Determinism and the Chance of Life
4. The Climatic Push
5. Boosting the Settler Environment
6. Settlement of Body and Mind
7. Leaving the Cold Country
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