Climate and catastrophe in Cuba and the Atlantic world in the age of revolution

    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Johnson,Sherry (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    2011
    WorldCat URL:
    http://www.worldcat.org/isbn/9780807834930
    Published:
    Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    ISBN:
    9780807834930; 0807834939
    Subject Term:
    Caribbean area, History, Politics and government, Colonialism, Social conditions, Latin America, Cuba, Climate, 18th century, Social change, and Disasters
    Notes:
    306 p., Weather-induced environmental crises and slow responses from imperial authorities, Johnson argues, played an inextricable and, until now, largely unacknowledged role in the rise of revolutionary sentiments in the 18th century Caribbean.

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