In early 2023 I joined Philip Gooding to chat about my article in Environment and History, ‘Health, hearth and empire: climate, race and reproduction in British India and Western Australia’. We covered the nuances of 19th-century British imperial policy in the Indian Ocean World, the shortfalls of contemporary climatic theories of race and health, and the value of gender analysis in climate history as a whole. The conversation was recorded for the Indian Ocean World podcast, and the transcript was published in the Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies.
Discussing climate history
View of the Swan River, taken at the commencement of fresh water, in 1827, painted by Frederick Garling during the exploration by James Stirling, Art Gallery of Western Australia.