Sea of storms : a history of hurricanes in the greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina / Stuart B. Schwartz.
Series: Lawrence Stone lecturesPublisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2015]Copyright date: �2015Description: xxvii, 439 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- cartographic image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780691157566
- 0691157561
- QC945 .S4728 2015
- ASLI Choice Award
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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BOOK | NCAR Library Mesa Lab | QC945 .S4728 2015 | 1 | Available | 50583020003285 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-425) and index.
Storms and gods in a Spanish sea -- Melancholy occasions : hurricanes in a colonial world -- War, reform, and disaster -- Calamity, slavery, community, and revolution -- Freedom, sovereignty, and disasters -- Nature and politics at the century's turn -- Memories of disaster in a decade of storms -- Public storms, communal action, and private grief -- Ancient storms in a new century.
Spanning more than five centuries and drawing on extensive archival research in Europe and the Americas, Sea of Storms emphasizes the continuing role of race, social inequality, and economic ideology in the shaping of our responses to natural disaster. -- from dust jacket.
ASLI Choice Award