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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 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
