Winds of Change: Hurricanes & the Transformation of Nineteenth-century CubaUniversity of North Carolina Press, 2001 - 199 pagine Hurricanes are a key factor in the development of modern Cuba. This book shows how these great storms - and three in particular (1842, 1844, 1846) - played a decisive role in shaping the economy, the culture, and the island's history. Eyewitness accounts and agricultural/economic data are used. |
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Where Winds Gather | 14 |
Coming into Being | 37 |
A Time of Tempests | 57 |
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1846 hurricane agricultural Aldama Alquízar año Antonio arrobas Artemisa barrios cafetal cafetales Camagüey cane Capitanía Cárdenas Caribbean casa ciclón Cienfuegos coast coffee estates coffee plantations coffee production collapsed colonial condition countryside crops Cuadro estadístico Cuba Havana Cuban cultivation damage destroyed destruction devastation Diario Domingo del Monte Económica estancias estragos causados expanded exports extramuro Faro Industrial Fernández Fondo Reales Francisco Guanajay Güines harvest histórico houses huracán hurricanes of 1844 ibid increased ingenios Isla de Cuba island José Juan jurisdiction La Habana labor land Leopoldo O'Donnell Madrid Manuel Matanzas Memoria midcentury Miguel million nineteenth-century Occidente October 15 octubre percent pesos Pinar del Río planters plants population port pounds Quivicán rain Real Sociedad Relación ruin Sagua la Grande San Lázaro Sancti-Spíritus Santiago de Cuba September sitios slaves Sociedad Spanish suffered Taíno tion tobacco town trees Trinidad uprooted vegas villa vols Vuelta Abajo winds wrote zones