Climate in Motion
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-75233-4 (ISBN)
Deborah R. Coen is professor of history and chair of Yale University’s Program in History of Science and Medicine. She is the author of Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty: Science, Liberalism, and Private Life and The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter, both published by the University of Chicago Press.
List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Climate and Empire
Part 1 Unity in Diversity
1 The Habsburgs and the Collection of Nature
2 The Austrian Idea
3 The Imperial-Royal Scientist
4 The Dual Task
Part 2 The Scales of Empire
5 The Face of the Empire
6 The Invention of Climatography
7 The Power of Local Differences
8 Planetary Disturbances
Part 3 The Work of Scaling
9 The Forest-Climate Question
10 The Floral Archive
11 Landscapes of Desire
Conclusion: After Empire
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 23.09.2020 |
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Zusatzinfo | 5 color plates, 45 halftones |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 594 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Meteorologie / Klimatologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-226-75233-X / 022675233X |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-226-75233-4 / 9780226752334 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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