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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... Colonial insurrec- tion had rocked the European empires in the 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 ...
... Colonial insurrec- tion had rocked the European empires in the 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 ...
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... colonial order and hence transformed their re- lationship to everything else . They set in relief the colony's relationship to the metropolis and , more significant , placed in full public view many of the assumptions governing the ...
... colonial order and hence transformed their re- lationship to everything else . They set in relief the colony's relationship to the metropolis and , more significant , placed in full public view many of the assumptions governing the ...
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... colonial condition ; about the role of the state , the nature of class structures , the character of slavery and race rela- tions ; about kinship and community ; and , in the end , about the people that Cubans were becoming . This work ...
... colonial condition ; about the role of the state , the nature of class structures , the character of slavery and race rela- tions ; about kinship and community ; and , in the end , about the people that Cubans were becoming . This work ...
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... colonial society in times of stress , the points at which the routines of daily life were interrupted and suspended , when " normal " be- came impossible . Nothing , perhaps , escapes the searching gaze of the histo- rian as readily as ...
... colonial society in times of stress , the points at which the routines of daily life were interrupted and suspended , when " normal " be- came impossible . Nothing , perhaps , escapes the searching gaze of the histo- rian as readily as ...
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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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Otras ediciones - Ver todas
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 |
Términos y frases comunes
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