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Climate, science, and colonization : histories from Australia and New Zealand
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Climate, science, and colonization : histories from Australia and New Zealand

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PART I: FRAMES
1. Overview: Themes in Climate, Empire, and Science; Georgina Endfield and Sam Randalls
2. Australasia Palaeoclimate during the Last Glacial Maximum and the Holocene; Andrew M. Lorrey
PART II: EVENTS
3. "The usual weather in New South Wales is uncommonly bright and clear... equal to the finest summer day in England": Climate and Weather in New South Wales, 1788-1815; Claire Fenby, Joelle Gergis, and Don Garden
4. It Isn't Always ENSO: The Extreme Weather in New Zealand and Australia, 1895-98; Don Garden
5. Climatic Challenges to Agriculture and Settlement in Southern New Zealand, 1850-1900: Science, Models, and Good Practice; Peter Holland
PART III: HUMAN CLIMATIC CHANGE
6. Debating the Climatological Role of Forests in Colonial Victoria and South Australia; Stephen Legg
7. Rainmaking Experiments and Rainmaking Prayers: Science, Religion, and Nature in Australasia; James Beattie
8. Drawing Goyder's Line: Climate, Wheat Farming, and the Limits of Settlement in South Australia; David Walker
PART IV: CLIMATE UNDERSTANDINGS
9. Settling the Seasons: Understanding Climatic Variability in the Southwest of Western Australia, 1829-2007; Ruth Morgan
10. "Soothsaying" or "Science"?: Meteorology and Environmental Knowledge in Colonial Australia; Emily O'Gorman
11. Imported Understandings: Calendars, Weather, and Climate in Tropical Australia; Christian O'Brien
12. Australasian Airspace: Meteorology and the Practical Geopolitics of Australasian Airspace, 1935-40; Matthew Henry.

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Climate, science, and colonization : histories from Australia and New Zealand. ISBN 9781137333926. Published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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