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