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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... towns and cities . Almost every city in Cuba in- corporates into local lore the experience of at least one hurricane ... town historian . “ The horrible whistling of the wind that sounded like the prolonged moaning of all of humanity ...
... towns and cities . Almost every city in Cuba in- corporates into local lore the experience of at least one hurricane ... town historian . “ The horrible whistling of the wind that sounded like the prolonged moaning of all of humanity ...
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... town away , carrying out to sea more than 2,500 of the total 3,000 residents . Havana was besieged again in 1944 , and for hours the capi- tal was buffeted by winds many believed to have approached two hundred miles per hour . Oriente ...
... town away , carrying out to sea more than 2,500 of the total 3,000 residents . Havana was besieged again in 1944 , and for hours the capi- tal was buffeted by winds many believed to have approached two hundred miles per hour . Oriente ...
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... other islands and mainlands . Bays and harbors filled with towns and cities and expanded into the surrounding countryside . But these were also pre- cisely the zones most susceptible to the forces of the 8 INTRODUCTION.
... other islands and mainlands . Bays and harbors filled with towns and cities and expanded into the surrounding countryside . But these were also pre- cisely the zones most susceptible to the forces of the 8 INTRODUCTION.
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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
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