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Sea of Storms

By Stuart Schwartz

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Sea of Storms

By Stuart Schwartz

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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.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
439
Release Date:
2015-01-18
Publication Date:
2015-02-28
Publisher:
Princeton Univers. Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0691157561
ISBN13:
9780691157566
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
825 g
Height:
164 cm
Width:
246 cm
Thickness:
42 cm
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