1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910822446303321

Autore

Johnson Sherry <1949->

Titolo

Climate and catastrophe in Cuba and the Atlantic world in the age of revolution / / Sherry Johnson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2011

ISBN

979-88-908404-1-7

1-4696-0262-8

0-8078-6934-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (324 p.)

Collana

Envisioning Cuba

Disciplina

363.34/9209729109033

Soggetti

Climatic extremes - Social aspects - Cuba - History - 18th century

Climatic extremes - Political aspects - Cuba - History - 18th century

Disasters - Cuba - History - 18th century

Social change - Cuba - History - 18th century

Cuba Climate History 18th century

Cuba Politics and government 18th century

Cuba Social conditions 18th century

Cuba History To 1810

Caribbean Area History To 1810

Latin America History To 1830

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cursed by Nature -- Be Content with Things at Which Nature Almost Revolted -- It Appeared as If the World Were Ending -- The Violence Done to Our Interests -- In a Common Catastrophe All Men Should Be Brothers -- The Tomb That Is the Almendares River -- So Contrary to Sound Policy and Reason -- Appendix 1: A Chronology of Alternating Periods of Drought and Hurricanes in Cuba and the Greater Caribbean, Juxtaposed with Major Historical "Events," 1749-1800 -- Appendix 2: Sources for the Maps.

Sommario/riassunto

From 1750 to 1800, a critical period that saw the American Revolution, French Revolution, and Haitian Revolution, the Atlantic world experienced a series of environmental crises, including more frequent



and severe hurricanes and extended drought. Drawing on historical climatology, environmental history, and Cuban and American colonial history, Sherry Johnson innovatively integrates the region's experience with extreme weather events and patterns into the history of the Spanish Caribbean and the Atlantic world.By superimposing this history of natural disasters over the conventional time