Winds of Change: Hurricanes & the Transformation of Nineteenth-century CubaUniv of North Carolina Press, 2001 - 199 páginas The first book to establish hurricanes as a key factor in the development of modern Cuba, Winds of Change shows how these great storms played a decisive role in shaping the economy, the culture, and the nation during a critical century in the island's his |
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... America The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources . Library of Congress Cataloging - in - Publication Data ...
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... Americas , in British North America , in the neighboring French colony of Saint Domingue , and in the far - flung Spanish colonies on the mainland . Producers in Cuba contem- plated unfolding political developments around them with ...
... Americas , in British North America , in the neighboring French colony of Saint Domingue , and in the far - flung Spanish colonies on the mainland . Producers in Cuba contem- plated unfolding political developments around them with ...
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... America were often dispersed and distributed over the water and across the islands by powerful winds . Winds bearing seeds and spores and trans- porting birds and insects were the means by which the landscape and ecol- ogy of the region ...
... America were often dispersed and distributed over the water and across the islands by powerful winds . Winds bearing seeds and spores and trans- porting birds and insects were the means by which the landscape and ecol- ogy of the region ...
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Contenido
1 Where Winds Gather | 14 |
2 Coming into Being | 37 |
3 A Time of Tempests | 57 |
4 When Winds Disturb the Surface | 83 |
5 Bending to the Force of the Wind | 109 |
6 Between the Storms | 139 |
Notes | 157 |
Bibliographical Essay | 187 |
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Winds of Change: Hurricanes and the Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Cuba Louis A. Pérez Jr. Vista previa limitada - 2002 |
Winds of Change: Hurricanes & the Transformation of Nineteenth-century Cuba Louis A. Pérez Vista de fragmentos - 2001 |
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1846 hurricane agricultural Alquízar Angerona Antonio arrobas Artemisa barrios cafetal cafetales Camagüey cane Capitanía Cárdenas Caribbean Casas ciclón Cienfuegos coast coffee estates coffee plantations coffee production colonial correspondiente al año countryside Cuadro estadístico Cuba Havana Cuban cultivation damage destroyed destruction devastation Diario disaster Domingo del Monte estragos causados exports extramuro Faro Industrial Fernández Fiel Isla Francisco García Guanajay Guerra y Sánchez Güines harvest Historia de Cuba histórica houses huracán hurricanes of 1844 ibid increased ingenios Isla de Cuba Island of Cuba José Juan jurisdicción La Habana labor land Leopoldo O'Donnell London Madrid Manuel Matanzas Memoria midcentury million nineteenth century Occidente October October 15 octubre percent pesos Pinar del Río planters plants population Quivicán rain Real Sociedad Relación reprint ruin Sagra San Lázaro Sancti-Spíritus Santiago de Cuba September sitios slaves Taíno tion tobacco town trees vegas villa vols Vuelta Abajo winds wrote zones