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Climate and Catastrophe in Cuba and the Atlantic World in the Age of Revolution (Hardcover, 1st New edition) Loot Price: R1,073
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Climate and Catastrophe in Cuba and the Atlantic World in the Age of Revolution (Hardcover, 1st New edition): Sherry Johnson

Climate and Catastrophe in Cuba and the Atlantic World in the Age of Revolution (Hardcover, 1st New edition)

Sherry Johnson

Series: Envisioning Cuba

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From 1750 to 1800, a critical period that saw the American Revolution, French Revolution, and Haitian Revolution, the Atlantic world experienced a series of environmental crises, including more frequent and severe hurricanes and extended drought. Drawing on historical climatology, environmental history, and Cuban and American colonial history, Sherry Johnson innovatively integrates the region's experience with extreme weather events and patterns into the history of the Spanish Caribbean and the Atlantic world. By superimposing this history of natural disasters over the conventional timeline of sociopolitical and economic events in Caribbean colonial history, Johnson presents an alternative analysis in which some of the signal events of the Age of Revolution are seen as consequences of ecological crisis and of the resulting measures for disaster relief. For example, Johnson finds that the general adoption in 1778 of free trade in the Americas was catalyzed by recognition of the harsh realities of food scarcity and the needs of local colonists reeling from a series of natural disasters. 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 eighteenth-century Caribbean. |From 1750 to 1800, a critical period that saw the American Revolution, French Revolution, and Haitian Revolution, the Atlantic world experienced a series of environmental crises, including more frequent and severe hurricanes and extended drought. Drawing on historical climatology, environmental history, and Cuban and American colonial history, Sherry Johnson innovatively integrates the region's experience with extreme weather events and patterns into the history of the Spanish Caribbean and the Atlantic world.

General

Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Envisioning Cuba
Release date: November 2011
First published: November 2011
Authors: Sherry Johnson
Dimensions: 235 x 156 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 328
Edition: 1st New edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-3493-0
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > American history > 1500 to 1800
Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Social impact of environmental issues > General
Books > History > American history > 1500 to 1800
LSN: 0-8078-3493-9
Barcode: 9780807834930

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