Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 16241783

Informationen zum Autor Matthew Mulcahy is associate professor and chair of the history department at Loyola College in Maryland. Klappentext Hurricanes created unique challenges for the colonists in the British Greater Caribbean during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. These storms were entirely new to European settlers and quickly became the most feared part of their physical environment, destroying staple crops and provisions, leveling plantations and towns, disrupting shipping and trade, and resulting in major economic losses for planters and widespread privation for slaves. In this study, Matthew Mulcahy examines how colonists made sense of hurricanes, how they recovered from them, and the role of the storms in shaping the development of the region's colonial settlements. Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624-1783 provides a useful new perspective on several topics including colonial science, the plantation economy, slavery, and public and private charity. By integrating the West Indies into the larger story of British Atlantic colonization, Mulcahy's work contributes to early American history, Atlantic history, environmental history, and the growing field of disaster studies. Zusammenfassung By integrating the West Indies into the larger story of British Atlantic colonization! Mulcahy's work contributes to early American history! Atlantic history! environmental history! and the growing field of disaster studies.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Mulcahy, Matthew (Associate Professor and Chair Mulcahy
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.10.2008
• EAN: 9780801890796
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-9079-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Early America: History, Contex; Early America: History, Context, Culture; Early America: History, Contex
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, NATURE / Natural Disasters, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Caribbean islands, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, History of the Americas, Natural disasters, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, C 1600 To C 1700, C 1700 To C 1800