Cover; A Temperate Empire; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Improving the Climate; Part I: Climate and Geography; 1. The Golden Mean; A Different Latitude; The Northern Temperate Zone; Natural and Political Histories of the Northeast; 2. Transatlantic Networks and the Geography of Climate Knowledge; Inquisitive Minds; Colonies of the Republic of Letters; Brethren in Science; Exchanges; Family Networks; On the Margins; Part II: Climate and Colonialism; 3. An American Siberia; Population and Depopulation; "A Colder and Less Plentifull Country than New England."

The Poor Man's Dung 4. Jamaicans In and Out of Nova Scotia; Jamaica to the Maroons; In and Out of Nova Scotia; Human Geography and Climate; Wentworth on Climate, Slavery, and Race; Empire Without Slaves in the North; 5. Works in Progress; The Energetic Hands of Britons; Fieldwork; Modern Winters; Notes; Bibliography; Index.