Climate in motion : science, empire, and the problem of scale /

Climate in motion : science, empire, and the problem of scale /

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Author / Creator:	Coen, Deborah R., author.
Imprint:	Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2018] ©2018
Description:	xiv, 425 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Climatology -- Research -- Austria. Climatology -- History -- 19th century. Science -- Austria -- History -- 19th century. Science -- Political aspects -- Austria. Climatology. Climatology -- Research. Intellectual life. Science. Science -- Political aspects. Austria -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. Austria. History.
Format:	Print Book
Local Note:	University of Chicago Library's UCPress copy has original dust jacket.
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11687935

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ISBN:	9780226398822 022639882X 9780226555027 022675233X 9780226752334
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	Today, predicting the impact of human activities on the earth's climate hinges on tracking interactions among phenomena of radically different dimensions, from the molecular to the planetary. Climate in Motion shows that this multiscalar, multicausal framework emerged well before computers and satellites. Extending the history of modern climate science back into the nineteenth century, Deborah R. Coen uncovers its roots in the politics of empire-building in central and eastern Europe. She argues that essential elements of the modern understanding of climate arose as a means of thinking across scales in a state the multinational Habsburg Monarchy, a patchwork of medieval kingdoms and modern laws - where such thinking was a political imperative. Led by Julius Hann in Vienna, Habsburg scientists were the first to investigate precisely how local winds and storms might be related to the general circulation of the earth's atmosphere as a whole. Linking Habsburg climatology to the political and artistic experiments of late imperial Austria, Coen grounds the seemingly esoteric science of the atmosphere in the everyday experiences of an earlier era of globalization. Climate in Motion presents the history of modern climate science as a history of scaling - that is, the embodied work of moving between different frameworks for measuring the world. In this way, it offers a critical historical perspective on the concepts of scale that structure thinking about the climate crisis today and the range of possibilities for responding to it.
Standard no.:	40028356705

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