TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zilberstein,Anya
TI  - A temperate empire: making climate change in early America 
SN  - 9780190206604
AV  - QC903.2.N665 Z55 2016
U1  - 304.2/5097409033 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - New York, NY, United States of America
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Climatic changes
KW  - North America
KW  - History
KW  - United States
KW  - Climat
KW  - Changements
KW  - Amérique du Nord
KW  - Histoire
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - Global Warming & Climate Change
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Cover; A Temperate Empire; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Improving the Climate; Part I: Climate and Geography; 1. The Golden Mean; A Different Latitude; The Northern Temperate Zone; Natural and Political Histories of the Northeast; 2. Transatlantic Networks and the Geography of Climate Knowledge; Inquisitive Minds; Colonies of the Republic of Letters; Brethren in Science; Exchanges; Family Networks; On the Margins; Part II: Climate and Colonialism; 3. An American Siberia; Population and Depopulation; "A Colder and Less Plentifull Country than New England."; The Poor Man's Dung 4. Jamaicans In and Out of Nova Scotia; Jamaica to the Maroons; In and Out of Nova Scotia; Human Geography and Climate; Wentworth on Climate, Slavery, and Race; Empire Without Slaves in the North; 5. Works in Progress; The Energetic Hands of Britons; Fieldwork; Modern Winters; Notes; Bibliography; Index
N2  - '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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