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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691173605
ISBN-13
9780691173603
eBay Product ID (ePID)
224559993
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
472 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Sea of Storms : a History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina
Publication Year
2016
Subject
Natural Disasters, Sociology / General, Social History, Caribbean & West Indies / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Nature, Social Science, History
Series
The Lawrence Stone Lectures
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
26.2 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
7.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"The author weaves a tapestry that traces the emergence of a collective awareness of this hazard during colonization of the Americas, and considers the consequences of storm damage and catastrophes for politics, economics, geography, and life in general in the modernization of both island and continental nations of the realm." -- Choice, Honorable Mention for the 2015 ASLI Choice Award in History, Atmospheric Science Librarians International, "This is a magnificent book. In a breathtaking narrative spanning five centuries of hurricanes and their consequences, Schwartz accomplishes what no one has done before: a transnational history of the Caribbean region through the optic of one of the most widely shared of its historical experiences." --Francisco A. Scarano, coeditor of The Caribbean: A History of the Region and Its Peoples, Honorable Mention for the 2016 Marysa Navarro Best Book Prize, New England Council on Latin American Studies (NECLAS), "A five-century history of wind, race, and revolution, Sea of Storms is a remarkable achievement. Schwartz manages to combine rigorous social analysis that calls to mind Fernand Braudel's longue durée with a sense of humanity equal to that of Eduardo Galeano. Timely and urgent, Sea of Storms is history at its best, revealing the past while helping us make sense of our present." --Greg Grandin, author of The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World, "Schwartz's versatility as a historian is on full display in this erudite, accessible, and ultimately essential book." --Kris Lane, Reviews in American History, "Schwartz synthesizes the stormy Caribbean's commonalities, continuities, and ruptures with an often brilliant concision and illuminating eye." --Shawn W. Miller, American Historical Review, "Stuart Schwartz has a vivid eye for evidence, a deft way with detail, and a knack for peopling vast historical landscapes with real lives. Sea of Storms is exemplary: a work of environmental history that's sensitive to culture, and of cultural history driven, but not determined, by the wind." --Felipe Fernández-Armesto, author of Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States, Winner of the 2015 Gustav Ranis International Book Prize, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University Honorable Mention for the 2015 ASLI Choice Award in History, Atmospheric Science Librarians International Shortlisted for the 2015 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature, McGill University, " Sea of Storms is a book of Braudelian ambition by a master of the trade. The story is as engrossing as it is momentous." --Jordan E. Lauhon, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, " Sea of Storms is the product of decades of original research, a synthesis of the knowledge of hurricanes and their effects, a handbook for students and established scholars hoping to craft their own studies on hurricanes, and a summary of the multidisciplinary literature to date. It is exemplary scholarship and is indispensable for anyone who hopes to learn more about historic hurricanes or intends to employ disasters as theoretical models in their own work." --Sherry Johnson, Journal of Historical Geography, "In this magisterial study, the histories of colonization, state formation, empire, slavery, and emancipation come into sharp relief when viewed through the eye of the hurricane. Sea of Storms is a tightly focused study that delivers perspectives as sweeping as the history of the Caribbean itself." --Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, University of Texas at Austin, "Schwartz's book offers a refreshing perspective and is an important contribution to the study of the region's hazards and societies." --Johannes Bohle, H-Soz-u-Kult, Winner of the 2015 Gustav Ranis International Book Prize, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University
Series Volume Number
6
Dewey Decimal
363.34/92
Synopsis
A panoramic social history of hurricanes in the Caribbean The diverse cultures of the Caribbean have been shaped as much by hurricanes as they have by diplomacy, commerce, or the legacy of colonial rule. In this panoramic work of social history, Stuart Schwartz examines how Caribbean societies have responded to the dangers of hurricanes, and how these destructive storms have influenced the region's history, from the rise of plantations, to slavery and its abolition, to migrations, racial conflict, and war. Taking readers from the voyages of Columbus to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Schwartz looks at the ethical, political, and economic challenges that hurricanes posed to the Caribbean's indigenous populations and the different European peoples who ventured to the New World to exploit its riches. He describes how the United States provided the model for responding to environmental threats when it emerged as a major power and began to exert its influence over the Caribbean in the nineteenth century, and how the region's governments came to assume greater responsibilities for prevention and relief, efforts that by the end of the twentieth century were being questioned by free-market neoliberals. Schwartz sheds light on catastrophes like Katrina by framing them within a long and contentious history of human interaction with the natural world. 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., The diverse cultures of the Caribbean have been shaped as much by hurricanes as they have by diplomacy, commerce, or the legacy of colonial rule. In this panoramic work of social history, Stuart Schwartz examines how Caribbean societies have responded to the dangers of hurricanes, and how these destructive storms have influenced the region's histor, The diverse cultures of the Caribbean have been shaped as much by hurricanes as they have by diplomacy, commerce, or the legacy of colonial rule. In this panoramic work of social history, Stuart Schwartz examines how Caribbean societies have responded to the dangers of hurricanes, and how these destructive storms have influenced the region's history, from the rise of plantations, to slavery and its abolition, to migrations, racial conflict, and war. Taking readers from the voyages of Columbus to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Schwartz looks at the ethical, political, and economic challenges that hurricanes posed to the Caribbean's indigenous populations and the different European peoples who ventured to the New World to exploit its riches. He describes how the United States provided the model for responding to environmental threats when it emerged as a major power and began to exert its influence over the Caribbean in the nineteenth century, and how the region's governments came to assume greater responsibilities for prevention and relief, efforts that by the end of the twentieth century were being questioned by free-market neoliberals.Schwartz sheds light on catastrophes like Katrina by framing them within a long and contentious history of human interaction with the natural world. 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.
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