Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624-1783

by Matthew Mulcahy

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801890799
• ISBN13: 9780801890796
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher