Preface

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xxiii
5. Chapter 1. Storms and Gods in a Spanish Sea 1
6. Chapter 2. Melancholy Occasions: Hurricanes in a Colonial World 33
7. Chapter 3. War, Reform, and Disaster 70
8. Chapter 4. Calamity, Slavery, Community, and Revolution 110
9. Chapter 5. Freedom, Sovereignty, and Disasters 145
10. Chapter 6. Nature and Politics at the Century’s Turn 192
11. Chapter 7. Memories of Disaster in a Decade of Storms 226
12. Chapter 8. Public Storms, Communal Action, and Private Grief 272
13. Chapter 9. Ancient Storms in a New Century 319
14. Abbreviations 339
15. Notes 341
16. Bibliography of Works Consulted 393
17. Index 427
18. Backmatter 441