Winds of Change: Hurricanes & the Transformation of Nineteenth-century CubaThe 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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... as conventional wisdom, is shared as a common experience, and eventually
becomes "historical," hence all-inclusive. ... loaded with the dead, victims of the
overflowing Yumuri and San Juan Rivers: a horrible experience that we
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... as conventional wisdom, is shared as a common experience, and eventually
becomes "historical," hence all-inclusive. ... loaded with the dead, victims of the
overflowing Yumuri and San Juan Rivers: a horrible experience that we
continued ...
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How individuals responded to adversity as a shared experience — how
misfortune and misery were transacted and in the end transformed into a source
of empowerment— offers insights into the origins of nation and the character of
nationality ...
How individuals responded to adversity as a shared experience — how
misfortune and misery were transacted and in the end transformed into a source
of empowerment— offers insights into the origins of nation and the character of
nationality ...
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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 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Referencias a este libro
An Environmental History of Latin America Shawn Miller,Shawn William Miller Sin vista previa disponible - 2007 |
Información bibliográfica
| Título | Winds of Change: Hurricanes & the Transformation of Nineteenth-century Cuba Winds of Change: Hurricanes and the Transformation of Nineteenth Century Cuba, Louis A. Pérez (Jr.) |
| Autor | Louis A. Pérez |
| Edición | ilustrada |
| Editor | Univ of North Carolina Press, 2001 |
| ISBN | 0807849286, 9780807849286 |
| Largo | 199 páginas |
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