Winds of Change: Hurricanes & the Transformation of Nineteenth-century Cuba

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Univ of North Carolina Press, 2001 - 199 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 his
 

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Sommario

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 and the Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Cuba
Louis A. Pérez Jr.
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Louis A. Pérez
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Informazioni sull'autore (2001)

Louis A. Perez Jr. is J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His books include On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and Culture, winner of the 2000 Bolton-Johnson Prize, and The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography. Louis A. Perez Jr. is J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His books include On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and Culture, winner of the 2000 Bolton-Johnson Prize, and The War of 1898: The United States and Cuba in History and Historiography.

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TitoloWinds of Change: Hurricanes & the Transformation of Nineteenth-century Cuba
Winds of Change: Hurricanes and the Transformation of Nineteenth Century Cuba, Louis A. Pérez (Jr.)
AutoreLouis A. Pérez
Edizioneillustrata
EditoreUniv of North Carolina Press, 2001
ISBN0807849286, 9780807849286
Lunghezza199 pagine
  
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