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Johnson, Sherry, 1949-

Climate and catastrophe in Cuba and the Atlantic world in the age of revolution [electronic resource] / Sherry Johnson. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011. - xiii, 306 p. : ill. - Envisioning Cuba . - Envisioning Cuba. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.






Climatic extremes--Social aspects--History--Cuba--18th century.
Climatic extremes--Political aspects--History--Cuba--18th century.
Disasters--History--Cuba--18th century.
Social change--History--Cuba--18th century.


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.


Electronic books.

QC987.C8 / J64 2011eb

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