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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Hurricanes & the Transformation of Nineteenth-century Cuba Louis A. Pérez. TABLES 1.1 Hurricanes in Cuba , 1494-1850 ... Hurricane of October 11 , 1846 " 72 Map of Havana , 1859 115 Acknowledgments This book was completed as a result of the.
Hurricanes & the Transformation of Nineteenth-century Cuba Louis A. Pérez. TABLES 1.1 Hurricanes in Cuba , 1494-1850 ... Hurricane of October 11 , 1846 " 72 Map of Havana , 1859 115 Acknowledgments This book was completed as a result of the.
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Hurricanes & the Transformation of Nineteenth-century Cuba Louis A. Pérez. Introduction " I was only three years old , " Dolores María de Ximeno wrote of the 1870 hurricane in Matanzas , “ and I remember perfectly well the roaring of ...
Hurricanes & the Transformation of Nineteenth-century Cuba Louis A. Pérez. Introduction " I was only three years old , " Dolores María de Ximeno wrote of the 1870 hurricane in Matanzas , “ and I remember perfectly well the roaring of ...
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... hurricane that so totally ravaged the community that daily life was never quite the same again . It is often a defining experience and eventually passes into shared memory perhaps as much as folklore as history . For communities , too ...
... hurricane that so totally ravaged the community that daily life was never quite the same again . It is often a defining experience and eventually passes into shared memory perhaps as much as folklore as history . For communities , too ...
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... Hurricane Flora rained down incalculable destruction ; almost all of its rivers - the Cauto , Contramaestre , Salado , Bayamo , Cautillo , Yara , and Camasan - poured over their banks onto the surrounding countryside . Vir- tually ...
... Hurricane Flora rained down incalculable destruction ; almost all of its rivers - the Cauto , Contramaestre , Salado , Bayamo , Cautillo , Yara , and Camasan - poured over their banks onto the surrounding countryside . Vir- tually ...
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... hurricane in 1559. " 1 Hurricanes frequently disrupted maritime commerce and communica- tion , both transatlantic travel and circum - Caribbean shipping . All through the early decades of the eighteenth century , hurricanes played havoc ...
... hurricane in 1559. " 1 Hurricanes frequently disrupted maritime commerce and communica- tion , both transatlantic travel and circum - Caribbean shipping . All through the early decades of the eighteenth century , hurricanes played havoc ...
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