Snow in the Cities
Snow in the Cities

Author: Blake McKelvey

Publisher: University Rochester Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 9781878822543

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The regular phenomenon of heavy snowfalls in the North American cities of the `snow belt' has had a marked influence on the communities affected; individuals and city authorities have both sought for ways to cope with the influence of snow storms on daily life. Making use of both official records and private and newspaper accounts from as far back as the Colonial period, the author traces the reactions heavy snows have provoked over the centuries, showing how communities have found increasingly sophisticated ways of dealing with the problems. He shows how the research prompted by the staggering costs have led to improved strategies, and details the moves towards the establishment of annual conferences on snow and its removal to pool experience and to find technological, fiscal and administrative responses to this regularly recurring phenomenon.BLAKE McKELVEYis former City Historian of Rochester, New York.

Historical Perspectives on Climate Change
Historical Perspectives on Climate Change

Author: James Rodger Fleming

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2005-07-14

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0199885095

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This intriguing volume provides a thorough examination of the historical roots of global climate change as a field of inquiry, from the Enlightenment to the late twentieth century. Based on primary and archival sources, the book is filled with interesting perspectives on what people have understood, experienced, and feared about the climate and its changes in the past. Chapters explore climate and culture in Enlightenment thought; climate debates in early America; the development of international networks of observation; the scientific transformation of climate discourse; and early contributions to understanding terrestrial temperature changes, infrared radiation, and the carbon dioxide theory of climate. But perhaps most important, this book shows what a study of the past has to offer the interdisciplinary investigation of current environmental problems.

Home Fires
Home Fires

Author: Sean P. Adams

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2014-05-15

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 1421413574

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This perspective allows a unique view of the development of an industrial society not just from the ground up but from the hearth up.

Historic Snowstorms of Central New York
Historic Snowstorms of Central New York

Author: Jim Farfaglia

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2022-10-17

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 143967650X

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Central New York, a region renowned as one of the snowiest in the world, has a long and stormy relationship with its winters. From the Lake Ontario port in Oswego to the busy streets of Syracuse and Utica, every community in the region has found themselves buried from brutal snowstorms. Author Jim Fafaglia draws from personal memories, family diaries and newspaper accounts to craft a two-hundred year history of Central New York's whiteouts, blizzards and snowstorms.

The Shadow of a Dream
The Shadow of a Dream

Author: Peter A. Coclanis

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 0195072677

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Coclanis here charts the economic and social rise and fall of a small, but intriguing part of the American South: Charleston and the surrounding South Carolina low country. Spanning 250 years, his study analyzes the interaction of both external and internal forces on the city and countryside, examining the effect of various factors on the region's economy from its colonial beginnings to its collapse in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Infortunate
Infortunate

Author: Susan E. Klepp

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2010-11-01

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780271041131

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A rare memoir from the early eighteenth century by an Englishman who traveled to the New World as an indentured servant.