Climate and Catastrophe in Cuba and the Atlantic World in the Age of Revolution.

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Drawing historical climatology, environmental history, and Cuban and American colonial history, Sherry Johnson innovatively integrates the history of the Spanish Caribbean and the Atlantic world during the Age of Revolution (1750-1800) with the period's extreme weather patterns and finds that w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Johnson, Sherry
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
Colección:EC.
Temas:
To 1830
Climatic extremes > Social aspects > Cuba > History > 18th century.
Social change > Cuba > History > 18th century.
Disasters > Cuba > History > 18th century.
Climatic extremes > Political aspects > Cuba > History > 18th century.
Extrêmes (Météorologie) > Aspect social > Cuba > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Catastrophes > Cuba > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Extrêmes (Météorologie) > Aspect politique > Cuba > Histoire > 18e siècle.
HISTORY > Caribbean & West Indies > Cuba.
Climatology
Disasters
Politics and government
Social change
Social conditions
Cuba > Climate > History > 18th century.
Cuba > Politics and government > 18th century.
Cuba > History > To 1810.
Caribbean Area > History > To 1810.
Latin America > History > To 1830.
Cuba > Social conditions > 18th century.
Cuba > Climat > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Cuba > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1810.
Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1810.
Amérique latine > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1830.
Cuba > Conditions sociales > 18e siècle.
Caribbean Area
Cuba
Latin America
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Drawing historical climatology, environmental history, and Cuban and American colonial history, Sherry Johnson innovatively integrates the history of the Spanish Caribbean and the Atlantic world during the Age of Revolution (1750-1800) with the period's extreme weather patterns and finds that weather-induced environmental crises played an inextricable and largely unacknowledged role in charting the course of this period as a critical juncture in Atlantic world history. Johnson reviews recent scientific discoveries in paleoclimatology and, combining them with archival materials, identifies an h.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (324 pages)
ISBN:9780807869345
0807869341

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