Weather matters: an American cultural history since 1900
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | IX, 397 S. |
| ISBN: | 9780700616114 |
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| adam_text | Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
ι
ι.
Talking about Weather
7
2.
Managing Weather
61
3.
Seeing Weather
129
4.
Transcribing Weather
194
5.
Suffering Weather
252
Conclusion
320
Notes
327
Selected Bibliography
379
Index
385
Everybody talks about it
—
and why not?
From tornadoes in the Heartland to
hurricanes in the Gulf, blizzards in the
Midwest to droughts across the South,
weather matters to Americans and makes
a difference in their daily lives.
Bernard Mergens captivating and
kaleidoscopic new book illuminates our
inevitable obsession with weather
—
as
both physical reality and evocative
metaphor
—
in all of its myriad forms,
focusing on the ways in which it is
perceived, feared, embraced, managed,
and even marketed. From the roaring
winds atop Mount Washington to the
reflective calm of the poets lair, he takes
a long-overdue look at public response
to weather in art, literature, and the
media. In the process, he reveals the cross-
pollination of ideas and perceptions about
weather across many fields, including
science, government, education, and
consumer culture.
Rich in detail and anecdote, Weather
Matters is filled with eccentric characters,
quirky facts, and vividly drawn events.
Mergen
elaborates on the curious
question of the butterfly effect, tracing
the notion to a
1918
suggestion that
a grasshopper in Idaho could cause a
devastating storm in New York City. He
chronicles the history of the U.S. Weather
Bureau and the American Meteorological
Society and their struggles for credibility,
as well as the rise of private meteorology
and weather modification
—
including the
military s flirtation with manipulating
weather as a weapon. And he recounts
an eight-day trip with storm chasers, a
gripping tale of weather at its fiercest that
shows scientists putting their lives at stake
in the pursuit of data.
Ultimatelv, Mérgen
contends that
the popularity of weather as a topic of
conversation can be found in its quasi-
religious power: the way it illuminates
the paradoxes of order and disorder in
daily life
—
a way of understanding the
roles of chance, scientific law, and free
will that makes our experience of weather
uniquely American. Brimming with new
insights into familiar experiences, Weather
Matters makes phenomena like Hurricane
Katrina and global warming at once more
understandable and more troubling
—
examples of our inability to really control
the environment
—
as it gives us a new
way of looking at our everyday world.
BERNARD
MERGEN
ÍS
professor
emeritus of American studies at George
Washington University and author of
Snow in America, which was awarded
the
2002
UUr Prize by the International
Skiing History Association.
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Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
ι
ι.
Talking about Weather
7
2.
Managing Weather
61
3.
Seeing Weather
129
4.
Transcribing Weather
194
5.
Suffering Weather
252
Conclusion
320
Notes
327
Selected Bibliography
379
Index
385
Everybody talks about it
—
and why not?
From tornadoes in the Heartland to
hurricanes in the Gulf, blizzards in the
Midwest to droughts across the South,
weather matters to Americans and makes
a difference in their daily lives.
Bernard Mergens captivating and
kaleidoscopic new book illuminates our
inevitable obsession with weather
—
as
both physical reality and evocative
metaphor
—
in all of its myriad forms,
focusing on the ways in which it is
perceived, feared, embraced, managed,
and even marketed. From the roaring
winds atop Mount Washington to the
reflective calm of the poets lair, he takes
a long-overdue look at public response
to weather in art, literature, and the
media. In the process, he reveals the cross-
pollination of ideas and perceptions about
weather across many fields, including
science, government, education, and
consumer culture.
Rich in detail and anecdote, Weather
Matters is filled with eccentric characters,
quirky facts, and vividly drawn events.
Mergen
elaborates on the curious
question of the "butterfly effect," tracing
the notion to a
1918
suggestion that
a grasshopper in Idaho could cause a
devastating storm in New York City. He
chronicles the history of the U.S. Weather
Bureau and the American Meteorological
Society and their struggles for credibility,
as well as the rise of private meteorology
and weather modification
—
including the
military's flirtation with manipulating
weather as a weapon. And he recounts
an eight-day trip with storm chasers, a
gripping tale of weather at its fiercest that
shows scientists putting their lives at stake
in the pursuit of data.
Ultimatelv, Mérgen
contends that
the popularity of weather as a topic of
conversation can be found in its quasi-
religious power: the way it illuminates
the paradoxes of order and disorder in
daily life
—
a way of understanding the
roles of chance, scientific law, and free
will that makes our experience of weather
uniquely American. Brimming with new
insights into familiar experiences, Weather
Matters makes phenomena like Hurricane
Katrina and global warming at once more
understandable and more troubling
—
examples of our inability to really control
the environment
—
as it gives us a new
way of looking at our everyday world.
BERNARD
MERGEN
ÍS
professor
emeritus of American studies at George
Washington University and author of
Snow in America, which was awarded
the
2002
UUr Prize by the International
Skiing History Association. |
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