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BL
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701538
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b523727
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| Main Entry
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Johnson, Sherry,1949-
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| Title & Author
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Climate and catastrophe in Cuba and the Atlantic world in the age of revolution /\ Sherry Johnson
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| Publication Statement
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Chapel Hill :: University of North Carolina Press,, c2011
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| Series Statement
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Envisioning Cuba
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xiii, 306 p. :: ill., maps ;; 25 cm
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| ISBN
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0807834939 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 9780807834930 (cloth : alk. paper)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Cursed by Nature -- Be Content with Things at Which Nature Almost Revolted -- It Appeared as If the World Were Ending -- The Violence Done to Our Interests -- In a Common Catastrophe All Men Should Be Brothers -- The Tomb That Is the Almendares River -- So Contrary to Sound Policy and Reason -- Appendix 1: A Chronology of Alternating Periods of Drought and Hurricanes in Cuba and the Greater Caribbean, Juxtaposed with Major Historical "Events," 1749-1800 -- Appendix 2: Sources for the Maps
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Climatic extremes-- Political aspects-- Cuba-- History-- 18th century
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Climatic extremes-- Social aspects-- Cuba-- History-- 18th century
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Disasters-- Cuba-- History-- 18th century
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Social change-- Cuba-- History-- 18th century
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Caribbean Area, History, To 1810
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Cuba, Climate, History, 18th century
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Cuba, History, To 1810
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Cuba, Politics and government, 18th century
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Cuba, Social conditions, 18th century
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Latin America, History, To 1830
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| Dewey Classification
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363.34/9209729109033
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| LC Classification
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QC987.C8J64 2011
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