Author: Michael ChenowethPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Climatic changes
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
The 18th Century Climate of Jamaica, Derived from the Journals of Thomas Thistlewood, 1750-1786
Author: Michael ChenowethPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Climatic changes
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
The 18th Century Climate of Jamaica Derived from the Journals of Thomas Thistlewood, 1750-1786
Author: Michael ChenowethPublisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9780871699329
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Thomas Thistlewood is known for his daily records of life on a slave plantation in eighteenth-century Jamaica. Thistlewood's previously unexamined weather journal is shown here to be the most important written record from the Earth's tropical regions available. His observation methods are superior to most of his contemporaries & provide a high-quality daily record of more than 35 years. Comparison of his records with modern weather records indicates that Thistlewood's Jamaica was a much cooler & moister place than in modern times. A 252-year record of tropical storm & hurricane frequency in Jamaica reveals that the late 20th-century minimum in storm frequency is unprecedented.
The 18th Century Climate of Jamaica Derived from the Journals of Thomas Thistlewood, 1750-1786
Author: James Edward McClellanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780871699329
Category : Climatic changes
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
Held at Philadelphia for promoting useful knowledge.
The 18th Century Climate of Jamaica Derived from the Journals of Thomas Thistlewood, 1750-1786
Author: Jean FernelPublisher:
ISBN: 9780871699329
Category : Climatic changes
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Climate and Culture
Author: Giuseppe FeolaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108422500
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Discusses how culture both facilitates and inhibits our ability to address, live with, and make sense of climate change.
Global Scientific Practice in an Age of Revolutions, 1750-1850
Author: Patrick ManningPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822981483
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The century from 1750 to 1850 was a period of dramatic transformations in world history, fostering several types of revolutionary change beyond the political landscape. Independence movements in Europe, the Americas, and other parts of the world were catalysts for radical economic, social, and cultural reform. And it was during this age of revolutions—an era of rapidly expanding scientific investigation—that profound changes in scientific knowledge and practice also took place. In this volume, an esteemed group of international historians examines key elements of science in societies across Spanish America, Europe, West Africa, India, and Asia as they overlapped each other increasingly. Chapters focus on the range of participants in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century science, their concentrated effort in description and taxonomy, and advancements in techniques for sharing knowledge. Together, contributors highlight the role of scientific change and development in tightening global and imperial connections, encouraging a deeper conversation among historians of science and world historians and shedding new light on a pivotal moment in history for both fields.
The Palgrave Handbook of Climate History
Author: Sam WhitePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137430206
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
This handbook offers the first comprehensive, state-of-the-field guide to past weather and climate and their role in human societies. Bringing together dozens of international specialists from the sciences and humanities, this volume describes the methods, sources, and major findings of historical climate reconstruction and impact research. Its chapters take the reader through each key source of past climate and weather information and each technique of analysis; through each historical period and region of the world; through the major topics of climate and history and core case studies; and finally through the history of climate ideas and science. Using clear, non-technical language, The Palgrave Handbook of Climate History serves as a textbook for students, a reference guide for specialists and an introduction to climate history for scholars and interested readers.
Sea and Land
Author: Philip D. MorganPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197555454
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
The first comprehensive environmental synthesis of the Caribbean region, written by eminent scholars of the topic.
A Caribbean Enlightenment
Author: April G. ShelfordPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009360795
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
Explores the intersection of Enlightenment ideas and colonial realities amongst White, male colonists in the eighteenth-century French and British Caribbean. For them, becoming 'enlightened' meant diversion, status seeking, satisfying curiosity about the tropical environment, and making sense of the brutal societies and the enslaved Africans.
Soundings in Atlantic History
Author: Bernard BailynPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674032764
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 635
Book Description
This is a cutting-edge collection of original essays on the connections and structures that made the Atlantic world a coherent regional entity.