Winds of Change: Hurricanes & the Transformation of Nineteenth-century CubaUniversity of North Carolina Press, 2001 - 199 páginas Hurricanes are a key factor in the development of modern Cuba. This book shows how these great storms - and three in particular (1842, 1844, 1846) - played a decisive role in shaping the economy, the culture, and the island's history. Eyewitness accounts and agricultural/economic data are used. |
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... island . October hurricanes were especially dreaded , for they usually recurved at the precise latitude of the island , where they crossed from south to north through the most productive agricultural zones of west- ern Cuba with an ...
... island . October hurricanes were especially dreaded , for they usually recurved at the precise latitude of the island , where they crossed from south to north through the most productive agricultural zones of west- ern Cuba with an ...
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... Island of Jamaica , with the Other Isles and Territories in America to Which the English are Related ( London , 1672 ) ; John Oldmixon , The British Empire in America , Containing the History of the Discovery , Settlement , Progress and ...
... Island of Jamaica , with the Other Isles and Territories in America to Which the English are Related ( London , 1672 ) ; John Oldmixon , The British Empire in America , Containing the History of the Discovery , Settlement , Progress and ...
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... island all but obligatory to many travelers to the New World . Cuba was within easy reach of North American travelers , who with increasing frequency visited the island through much of the period that is the focus of this book ...
... island all but obligatory to many travelers to the New World . Cuba was within easy reach of North American travelers , who with increasing frequency visited the island through much of the period that is the focus of this book ...
Contenido
Where Winds Gather | 14 |
Coming into Being | 37 |
A Time of Tempests | 57 |
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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 previa limitada - 2001 |
Términos y frases comunes
1846 hurricane agricultural Aldama Alquízar año Antonio arrobas Artemisa barrios cafetal cafetales Camagüey cane Capitanía Cárdenas Caribbean casa ciclón Cienfuegos coast coffee estates coffee plantations coffee production collapsed colonial condition countryside crops Cuadro estadístico Cuba Havana Cuban cultivation damage destroyed destruction devastation Diario Domingo del Monte Económica estancias estragos causados expanded exports extramuro Faro Industrial Fernández Fondo Reales Francisco Guanajay Güines harvest histórico houses huracán hurricanes of 1844 ibid increased ingenios Isla de Cuba island José Juan jurisdiction La Habana labor land Leopoldo O'Donnell Madrid Manuel Matanzas Memoria midcentury Miguel million nineteenth-century Occidente October 15 octubre percent pesos Pinar del Río planters plants population port pounds Quivicán rain Real Sociedad Relación ruin Sagua la Grande San Lázaro Sancti-Spíritus Santiago de Cuba September sitios slaves Sociedad Spanish suffered Taíno tion tobacco town trees Trinidad uprooted vegas villa vols Vuelta Abajo winds wrote zones