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A Temperate Empire: Making Climate Change in Early America by Anya Zilberstein (2016)

December 16, 2020

Centuries before contemporary debates about anthropogenic climate change took shape, early British settlers to New England and Nova Scotia believed that they could “improve” the climate of these otherwise inhospitable regions by placing the land under cultivation. In A Temperate Empire, Anya Zilberstein draws from a rich primary source base to analyze how these early […]

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