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« Settler colonialists heading to Florida: Elaine Lafay, ‘Botany, Health-Seeking, and Settler Colonialism in Tropical Florida, 1827–1840’, The Journal of Southern History, 89, 3, 2023, pp. 417-452
The settlers were always interested in empire: Wm. Matthew Kennedy, The imperial Commonwealth: Australia and the project of empire, 1867–1914, Manchester University Press, 2023 »

The settlers were always interested in climate change: Elaine LaFay, ‘Looking at the Weather: The Politics of Meteorological Data’, Harvard Data Science Review, 28/07/23

02Aug23

Description: Historical weather and climate data have become essential resources for tracking and understanding global warming. All too often, however, these data sets are treated as inert and apolitical. In this column, Elaine LaFay shows that historical weather data reveal far more than a changing climate: they play a key role in American settler-colonialism in the context of U.S. expansion into the Gulf South. Winds and weather were understood as active participants in human health and as powerful instruments in settlers’ imagination of themselves and their world.

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