Climate, Science, and Colonization: Histories from Australia and New Zealand (Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology)

by Matthew Henry (Editor), EmilyO'Gorman (Editor), Dr James Beattie (Editor)

• New

  Hardcover
  2014

  $125.61

  Offering new historical understandings of human responses to climate and climate change, this cutting-edge volume explores the dynamic relationship between settlement, climate, and colonization, covering everything from the physical impact of climate on agriculture and land development to the development of folk and government meteorologies.