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Article: Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624-1783.(Book review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- June 22, 2008
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Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624-1783. By Matthew Mulcahy (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. 292pp.).
Addressing what has long been the province of anthropologists and political scientists, Matthew Mulcahy's book is a welcome and timely entry into a growing genre in history that utilizes disaster and its aftermath as theoretical and/or analytical frameworks to establish change overtime. Related to, but distinct from traditional environmental history, disaster studies focus on a cataclysmic event or series of events as turning points in a region's history. Logically, Mulcahy has chosen hurricanes to investigate the ...