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



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Autore: Johnson Sherry <1949-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Climate and catastrophe in Cuba and the Atlantic world in the age of revolution / / Sherry Johnson Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
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
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Serie: Envisioning Cuba.