Winds of Change Hurricanes and the Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Cuba

Name: Winds of Change Hurricanes and the Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Cuba
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ISBN: 9780807849286

ISBN-10: 0807849286

ISBN-13: 9780807849286

Edition: 2001

Authors: Louis A. Pï¿½rez, Louis A. Pï¿½rez

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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 Prez 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…

Book details

List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 5/21/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.48" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

A former staff writer for the Miami Herald, Rodrigo Lazo is assistant professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Where Winds Gather



Coming into Being



A Time of Tempests



When Winds Disturb the Surface



Bending to the Force of the Wind



Between the Storms


Notes


Bibliographical Essay


Index