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Climate and catastrophe in Cuba and the Atlantic world in the age of revolution

Title
Climate and catastrophe in Cuba and the Atlantic world in the age of revolution / Sherry Johnson.
ISBN
9780807834930 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807834939 (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.
Physical Description
xiii, 306 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 06, 2013
Series
Envisioning Cuba.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
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