Climate and catastrophe in Cuba and the Atlantic world in the age of revolution /
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 his...
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press
©2011.
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| Цуврал: | Envisioning Cuba.
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| Онлайн хандалт: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9780807869345_johnson |
Агуулга:
- 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.