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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Fleming, James Rodger. Historical perspectives on climate change. New York : Oxford University Press, 1998 (DLC) 97022545 (OCoLC)37201313 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
James Rodger Fleming |
ISBN: | 9780198024064 0198024061 9780197560365 0197560369 1280760192 9781280760198 9786610760190 6610760195 |
OCLC Number: | 666991849 |
Language Note: | English. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 194 pages) : illustrations |
Contents: | Introduction: Apprehending Climate Change; 1 Climate and Culture in Enlightenment Thought; 2 The Great Climate Debate in Colonial and Early America; 3 Privileged Positions: The Expansion of Observing Systems; 4 Climate Discourse Transformed; 5 Joseph Fourier's Theory of Terrestrial Temperatures; 6 John Tyndall, Svante Arrhenius, and Early Research on Carbon Dioxide and Climate; 7 T.C. Chamberlin and the Geological Agency of the Atmosphere; 8 The Climatic Determinism of Ellsworth Huntington; 9 Global Warming? The Early Twentieth Century. |
Responsibility: | James Rodger Fleming. |
Abstract:
This book examines changing theories and perceptions of climatic change from the Enlightenment to the mid-twentieth century in both Europe and America. It explores the intellectual, social, and cultural meanings of climate and climate change through a fusion of history of science and cultural history.
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"Fleming presents...academic work, with a superb bibliography, and places the development of the science of the greenhouse effect in a context of the scientific concepts of the day." Nature, 21/10/99
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- Climatic changes -- Europe -- History.
- Climatic changes -- United States -- History.
- Global environmental change -- History.
- Climat -- Changements -- Europe -- Histoire.
- Climat -- Changements -- États-Unis -- Histoire.
- Changement global (Environnement) -- Histoire.
- SCIENCE -- Philosophy & Social Aspects.
- Climatic changes.
- Global environmental change.
- Europe.
- United States.
- Klimaänderung
- Geschichte
- Meteorologische Beobachtung
- Europa
- Klimaatveranderingen.
- Geschichte 1700-1960.
- USA.