Climate and catastrophe in Cuba and the Atlantic world in the age of revolution / / Sherry Johnson
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| Autore: |
Johnson Sherry <1949->
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| Titolo: |
Climate and catastrophe in Cuba and the Atlantic world in the age of revolution / / Sherry Johnson
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| Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2011 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (324 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 363.34/9209729109033 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | 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 | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Climate and catastrophe in Cuba and the Atlantic world in the age of revolution |
| ISBN: | 979-88-908404-1-7 |
| 1-4696-0262-8 | |
| 0-8078-6934-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910822446303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Envisioning Cuba.