Climate and catastrophe in Cuba and the Atlantic world in the age of revolution
By: Sherry Johnson
Series: Envisioning Cuba
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780807834930
Subjects: Politics and government; Climate; Social conditions; History; Climatic extremes; Social change; Disasters
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cursed by Nature; title: Be Content with Things at Which Nature Almost Revolted; title: It Appeared as If the World Were Ending; title: The Violence Done to Our Interests; title: In a Common Catastrophe All Men Should Be Brothers; title: The Tomb That Is the Almendares River; title: So Contrary to Sound Policy and Reason; title: Appendix 1: A Chronology of Alternating Periods of Drought and Hurricanes in Cuba and the Greater Caribbean, Juxtaposed with Major Historical "Events," 1749-1800; title: Appendix 2: Sources for the Maps.