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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... means by which people come to share those things that give resonance to the proposition of community . This is also true of entire towns and cities . Almost every city in Cuba in- corporates into local lore the experience of at least ...
... means by which people come to share those things that give resonance to the proposition of community . This is also true of entire towns and cities . Almost every city in Cuba in- corporates into local lore the experience of at least ...
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... mean instant ruin . Wars in Europe could have similar effects . So could wars in the New World . Colonial insurrec- tion had rocked the European empires in the Americas , in British North America , in the neighboring French colony of ...
... mean instant ruin . Wars in Europe could have similar effects . So could wars in the New World . Colonial insurrec- tion had rocked the European empires in the Americas , in British North America , in the neighboring French colony of ...
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... means by which the landscape and ecol- ogy of the region were formed over long stretches of time . Unknown , either , is how hurricanes of the past , especially the fearsome storms of the nineteenth century , affected resident and ...
... means by which the landscape and ecol- ogy of the region were formed over long stretches of time . Unknown , either , is how hurricanes of the past , especially the fearsome storms of the nineteenth century , affected resident and ...
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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