Cultural Histories, Memories and Extreme Weather: A Historical Geography Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780367667689 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 174 str.

Georgina H. Endfield; Lucy Veale

Opis

Extreme weather events, such as droughts, strong winds and storms, flash floods and extreme heat and cold, are among the most destructive yet fascinating aspects of climate variability. Historical records and memories charting the impacts and responses to such events are a crucial component of any research that seeks to understand the nature of

Spis treści

1. Climate, culture and weather 2. Learning to say "Phew" instead of "Brrr": social and cultural change during the British summer of 1976 3. On the home front: Australians and the 1914 drought 4. Extreme weather and the growth of charity: insights from the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners’ Royal Benevolent Society, 1839–1860 5. The temporal memory of major hurricanes 6. "May God place a bridge over the River Tywi": interrogating flood perceptions and memories in Welsh medieval poetry 7. Remembering in God’s name: the role of the church and community institutions in the aftermath and commemoration of floods 8. "The ice shards are gone": traditional ecological knowledge of climate and culture among the Cree of the Eastern James Bay, Canada 9. Post-scripting extreme weather: textuality, eventhood, resilience

O autorze

Georgina H. Endfield is Professor of Environmental History based at the University of Liverpool, UK. She is PI of an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project exploring extreme weather events in UK history and is currently President of the International Commission for the History of Meteorology and Editor of The Anthropocene Review.  

Lucy Veale is a Research Associate at the School of Geography, University of Liverpool, where she is working on the history of extreme weather events in the UK. Lucy’s interests and expertise are in archival research in historical geography, and she has worked on a wide range of projects relating to environmental, landscape and climate history.