Hurricanes created unique challenges for colonists in the British
Greater Caribbean during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
These storms were entirely new to European settlers and quickly
became the most feared part of their physical environment,
destroying staple crops and provisions, leveling plantations and
towns, disrupting shipping and trade, and resulting in major
economic losses for planters and widespread privation for slaves.
Matthew Mulcahy examines how colonists made sense of hurricanes,
how they recovered from them, and the role of the storms in shaping
the development of the region's colonial settlements.
"Path-breaking and original... Mulcahy has creatively exploited
the paper trails left by major seventeenth- and eighteenth-century
hurricanes as probes into changing social relations in the British
Caribbean." -- American Historical Review
"A rich and engaging study. Readers of Hurricanes and Society in
the British Greater Caribbean will add hurricanes to the list of
characteristics that define the early modern Caribbean: sugar,
slavery, disease, war." -- William and Mary Quarterly
"Mulcahy's vivid descriptions of Caribbean hurricanes, their
impact on colonial economic and social life, and their effects on
the larger Atlantic world is a most valuable contribution to the
recent number of books on disasters in history." -- Environmental
History
"This book will interest not only scholars interested in how
past groups have addressed the challenges of new environmental
phenomena but also those interested in how people have learned or
failed to learn from these events and how many of the fears and
misconceptions of the past still shape and distort our viewsof
disasters today." -- Hispanic American Historical Review
Matthew Mulcahy is an associate professor and chair of the
History Department at Loyola College in Maryland.
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