Imperial Climatographies from Tyrol to Turkestan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3924657 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Deborah R Coen (Barnard College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 45-65 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Osiris (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0369-7827 • E-ISSN: 1933-8287 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/661264 |
| PMID | 21936186 |
| OpenAlex | W2037265065 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 15 |
This article argues for the importance of Europe's continental empires, Habsburg and Romanov, to the emergence of a physical-dynamical model of the global climate before World War I. It begins to identify a set of questions and methods that were distinctive of climatology as a continental-imperial science of "regionalization" with a global vision. The focus is on studies of mountain climatology by Heinrich von Ficker and A. I. Voeikov in the ecologically vulnerable regions of Tyrol and western Turkestan. This continental-imperial context deserves historians' attention because it suggests a new model for the globalization of knowledge: not simply a matter of scaling up, globalization must be understood as a process of seeing across scales, of recognizing causal connections between local, regional, and planetary phenomena. "For a change, the material for a dissertation was procured mostly with the feet." Heinz Ficker, of his research on the föhn wind in Tyrol, 1906 "Science is something beautiful, especially when you can do it on horseback." Ficker in his journal in 1913, in a mountain pass in central Asia
Archaeology · Continental drift · Economic geography · Geography · Globalization · Political science · Central European and Russian historical studies · History · History of Science and Natural History · Law · Tree-ring climate responses · Geology · Paleontology
Bibliography of Books and Articles Published in English on Colonialism and Imperialism in 2011
Big is a Thing of the Past
Scaling High Places. Mountaineering Narratives as Climatological Tales
Cultures of Climate. On Bodies and Atmospheres in Modern Fiction
Historical geography III
Whole Issue
Climate history of Russia and the Soviet Union
Contributions and perspectives from geography to the study of climate
Climate and colonialism
Imperialism, colonialism, and climate change science
Helmut Landsberg and the evolution of 20th century American climatology
Global histories of empire and climate in the Anthropocene
Climate and history
Meteorological Frontiers
Average rainfall and the play of colors
Framing Asian atmospheres
Volumising territorial sovereignty
Seeing the Oceans in the Shadow of Bergen Values
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,29 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2024 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |