Climate and catastrophe in Cuba and the Atlantic world in the age of revolution / Sherry Johnson.

Author/creator Johnson, Sherry, 1949-
Format Book
Publication InfoChapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011.
Descriptionxiii, 306 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Subjects
Climatic extremes--Social aspects. --Cuba. --History. --18th century.
Climatic extremes--Political aspects. --Cuba. --History. --18th century.
Disasters--Cuba. --History. --18th century.
Social change--Cuba. --History. --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.

SeriesEnvisioning Cuba
Envisioning Cuba. ^A475880
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2011033282
ISBN9780807834930 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0807834939 (cloth : alk. paper)