Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Weather, Climate, and the Geographical Imagination | Martin Mahony and Samuel Randalls
Part I. Spaces of Observation
1. Atmospheric Empire: Historical Geographies of Meteorology at the Colonial Observatories | Simon Naylor and Matthew Goodman
2. Imperial Oscillations: Gilbert Walker and the Construction of the Southern Oscillation | George Adamson
3. The Weather Ship: Networks, Disasters, and Imaginaries after 1945 | Katharine Anderson
4. Looking for the Leeuwin: An Environmental History of the Leeuwin Current | Ruth A. Morgan
Part II. Horizons of Expectation
5. Imagined Geographies of Climate and Race in Anglophone Life Assurance c. 1840–1930 | James Kneale and Samuel Randalls
6. The British Women's Emigration Association and Climate(s) of South Africa | Georgina Endfield
7. Race and Rainmaking in the Twentieth-Century Southern Africa | Meredith McKittrick
8. Weather, Climate, and the Colonial Imagination: Meteorology and the End of Empire | Martin Mahony
Part III. Atmospheric Engtanglements
9. Darwinian Hippocratics, Eugenic Enticements, and the Biometeorological Body | David N. Livingstone
10. Civilization, Climate, and Ozone: Ellsworth Huntington’s “Big” Views on Biophysics, Biocosmics, and Biocracy | James Rodger Fleming
11. The Shaded Modernism of the Global Interior: Climate and Risk in the Architecture of MMM Roberto, Rio de Janeiro, 1936–1955 | Daniel A. Barber
Afterword: Historiographies and Geographies of Climate | Mike Hulme
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index