1st Edition
Weather, Migration and the Scottish Diaspora Leaving the Cold Country
By Graeme Morton
Copyright 2021
294 Pages
25 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
294 Pages
25 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
294 Pages
25 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Why did large numbers of Scots leave a temperate climate to live permanently in parts of the world where greater temperature extreme was the norm? The long nineteenth century was a period consistently cooler than now, and Scotland remains the coldest of the British nations. Nineteenth-century meteorologists turned to environmental determinism to explain the persistence of agricultural shortage... Read more
Introduction: Building on Climatic Causation; 1. The Weather Watchers; 2. Meteorological Periodisation; 3. Environmental Determinism and the Chance of Life; 4. The Climatic Push; 5. Boosting the Settler Environment; 6. Settlement of Body and Mind; 7. Leaving the Cold Country; Bibliography
Biography
Graeme Morton is Professor of Modern History at the University of Dundee where he is also Director of the Centre for Scottish Culture. His research is focussed on the study of migration, the Scottish diaspora, national identity and the weather.
