DOI: 10.1002/wcc.510
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-85041348818
论文题名: Climate and colonialism
作者: Mahony M ; , Endfield G
刊名: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
ISSN: 17577780
出版年: 2018
卷: 9, 期: 2 语种: 英语
英文关键词: Agriculture
; Environmental protection
; Forestry
; Health
; Colonialism
; Empire
; Environmental history
; Forests
; Historical research
; History of science
; Human health
; In-field
; History
; academic research
; acclimation
; climate effect
; colonialism
; historical geography
; historical perspective
; ideology
; imperialism
; racial disparity
; social history
; Europe
英文摘要: Recent years have seen a growth in scholarship on the intertwined histories of climate, science, and European imperialism. Scholarship has focused both on how the material realities of climate shaped colonial enterprises, and on how ideas about climate informed imperial ideologies. Historians have shown how European expansion was justified by its protagonists with theories of racial superiority, which were often closely tied to ideas of climatic determinism. Meanwhile, the colonial spaces established by European powers offered novel “laboratories” where ideas about acclimatization and climatic improvement could be tested on the ground. While historical scholarship has focused on how powerful ideas of climate informed imperial projects, emerging scholarship in environmental history, history of science, and historical geography focuses instead on the material and cognitive practices by which the climates of colonial spaces were made known and dealt with in fields such as forestry, agriculture, and human health. These heretofore rather disparate areas of historical research carry great contemporary relevance for studies of how climates and their changes have been understood, debated, and adapted to in the past. This article is categorized under: Climate, History, Society, Culture > Major Historical Eras. © 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/76126
Appears in Collections: 影响、适应和脆弱性 气候变化与战略
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作者单位: School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Recommended Citation:
Mahony M,, Endfield G. Climate and colonialism[J]. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change,2018-01-01,9(2)