Winds of Change: Hurricanes and the Transformation of Nineteenth-Century CubaUniv of North Carolina Press, 25 nov 2002 - 224 pagine The first book to establish hurricanes as a key factor in the development of modern Cuba, Winds of Change shows how these great storms played a decisive role in shaping the economy, the culture, and the nation during a critical century in the island's history. Always vulnerable to hurricanes, Cuba was ravaged in 1842, 1844, and 1846 by three catastrophic storms, with staggering losses of life and property. Louis Perez combines eyewitness and literary accounts with agricultural data and economic records to show how important facets of the colonial political economy--among them, land tenure forms, labor organization, and production systems--and many of the social relationships at the core of Cuban society were transformed as a result of these and lesser hurricanes. He also examines the impact of repeated natural disasters on the development of Cuban identity and community. Bound together in the face of forces beyond their control, Cubans forged bonds of unity in their ongoing efforts to persevere and recover in the aftermath of destruction. |
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... labor organization, and production systems. No less important, many social relationships around which colonial society had developed were reconfigured with lasting consequences. Virtually every facet of Cuban life was affected by the ...
... labor organization, and production systems. No less important, many social relationships around which colonial society had developed were reconfigured with lasting consequences. Virtually every facet of Cuban life was affected by the ...
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Sommario
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1 Where Winds Gather | 14 |
2 Coming into Being | 37 |
3 A Time of Tempests | 57 |
4 When Winds Disturb the Surface | 83 |
5 Bending to the Force of the Wind | 109 |
6 Between the Storms | 139 |
Notes | 157 |
Bibliographical Essay | 187 |
Index | 197 |
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Winds of Change: Hurricanes & the Transformation of Nineteenth-century Cuba Louis A. Pérez Anteprima limitata - 2001 |
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Parole e frasi comuni
1846 hurricane agricultural Alquízar Angerona año Antonio arrobas Artemisa barrios cafetal cafetales Camagüey cane Capitanía Cárdenas Caribbean Casas ciclón Cienfuegos coast coffee estates coffee plantations coffee production collapsed colonial countryside Cuadro estadístico Cuba Havana Cuban cultivation damage David Turnbull destroyed destruction devastation Diario disaster Domingo del Monte estancias estragos causados expanded exports extramuro Faro Industrial Fernández Fiel Isla Francisco García Guanajay Guerra y Sánchez Güines harvest Historia de Cuba histórica houses huracán ibid increased ingenios Isla de Cuba Island of Cuba José Juan jurisdicción La Habana labor land Leopoldo O’Donnell London Madrid Manuel Matanzas Memoria midcentury million nineteenth century Occidente October October 15 octubre percent pesos Pinar del Río planters plants population rain Real Sociedad Relación reprint ruin Sagra San Lázaro Sancti-Spíritus Santiago de Cuba September sitios slaves tion tobacco town trees tropical vegas villa vols Vuelta Abajo western winds wrote zones