Title Americans and their weather / William B. Meyer.

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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

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Description	1 online resource (viii, 278 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note	Print version record.
Summary	This revealing book synthesizes research from many fields to offer the first complete history of the roles played by weather and climate in American life from colonial times to the present. Author William B. Meyer characterizes weather events as neutral phenomena that are inherently neither hazards nor resources, but can become either depending on the activities with which they interact. Meyer documents the ways in which different kinds of weather throughout history have represented hazards and resources not only for such exposed outdoor pursuits as agriculture, warfare, transportation, construction, and recreation, but for other realms of life ranging from manufacturing to migration to human health. He points out that while the weather and climate by themselves have never determined the course of human events, their significance as been continuously altered for better and for worse by the evolution of American life.
Subject	Climatology -- Social aspects.
	Weather -- Social aspects.
	Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
	Climatic changes.
	United States -- Climate -- Social aspects.
	United States -- Climate.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
	Climatic changes. (OCoLC)fst00864229
	Climatology -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00864307
	Nature -- Effect of human beings on. (OCoLC)fst01034564
	Weather -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01173113
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Klimaat.
	Klimaatveranderingen.
	Weer.
	Sociale aspecten.
Other Form:	Print version: Meyer, William B. Americans and their weather. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000 (DLC) 99033193
ISBN	1429401370 (electronic bk.)
	9781429401371 (electronic bk.)

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