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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... experience or its effects : it is something that people recall clearly and often . The episode can serve permanently ... experiences are often added secondhand accounts , tales transformed into legend and lore , of family tragedies and ...
... experience or its effects : it is something that people recall clearly and often . The episode can serve permanently ... experiences are often added secondhand accounts , tales transformed into legend and lore , of family tragedies and ...
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... experience of at least one 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 ...
... experience of at least one 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 ...
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... experience , and eventually becomes " historical , ” hence all - inclusive . “ Of the historic hurricane that ... experienced , furiously struck . . . . The ones you've seen in news- reels were sunny days in comparison . Our house was ...
... experience , and eventually becomes " historical , ” hence all - inclusive . “ Of the historic hurricane that ... experienced , furiously struck . . . . The ones you've seen in news- reels were sunny days in comparison . Our house was ...
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... experience that could induce disquiet and doubt among even the most intrepid conquistadores and colo- nists . Over time hurricanes were incorporated into the cosmology of the Carib- bean , and the attending devastation periodically ...
... experience that could induce disquiet and doubt among even the most intrepid conquistadores and colo- nists . Over time hurricanes were incorporated into the cosmology of the Carib- bean , and the attending devastation periodically ...
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... experience . Specifically , this study examines the ways that the catastrophic storms of the 1840s shaped socioeconomic developments in nineteenth - century Cuba , by which , too , the limits of human agency were defined even as the ...
... experience . Specifically , this study examines the ways that the catastrophic storms of the 1840s shaped socioeconomic developments in nineteenth - century Cuba , by which , too , the limits of human agency were defined even as the ...
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 |
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