pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
Visit our new collection website www.collectionsforschool.co.uk
     
Email: Subscribe to news & offers:
Need assistance? Log In/Register


Item Details
Title: HURRICANES AND SOCIETY IN THE BRITISH GREATER CARIBBEAN, 1624-1783
By: Matthew Mulcahy
Format: Paperback

List price: £25.50


We currently do not stock this item, please contact the publisher directly for further information.

ISBN 10: 0801890799
ISBN 13: 9780801890796
Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 11 July, 2008
Series: Early America: History, Context, Culture
Pages: 272
Description: 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.
Synopsis: 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.
Illustrations: 1 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Halftones, black and white
Publication: US
Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
Returns: Returnable
Some other items by this author:

TOP SELLERS IN THIS CATEGORY
12 Years a Slave (Paperback / softback)
Stonewell Press
Our Price : £8.96
more details
Hamilton: The Revolution (Hardback)
Little, Brown Book Group
Our Price : £32.85
more details
Tuesdays With Morrie (Paperback)
Little, Brown Book Group
Our Price : £7.29
more details
Tuesdays With Morrie (Paperback)
Little, Brown Book Group
Our Price : £8.02
more details
OPEN VEINS OF LATIN AMERICA (Paperback)
MONTHLY REVIEW PRESS
Our Price : £13.19
more details
BROWSE FOR BOOKS IN RELATED CATEGORIES
 HUMANITIES
 history
 american history


Information provided by www.pickabook.co.uk
SHOPPING BASKET
  
Your basket is empty
  Total Items: 0
 






Early Learning
Little Worried Caterpillar (PB) Little Green knows she''s about to make a big change - transformingfrom a caterpillar into a beautiful butterfly. Everyone is VERYexcited! But Little Green is VERY worried. What if being a butterflyisn''t as brilliant as everyone says?Join Little Green as she finds her own path ... with just a littlehelp from her friends.
add to basket

Early Learning
add to basket

Picture Book
All the Things We Carry PB What can you carry?A pebble? A teddy? A bright red balloon? A painting you''ve made?A hope or a dream?This gorgeous, reassuring picture book celebrates all the preciousthings we can carry, from toys and treasures to love and hope. With comforting rhymes and fabulous illustrations, this is a warmhug of a picture book.
add to basket