Extreme weather and social vulnerability in colonial Antigua, Lesser Antilles, 1770-1890

This thesis presents an history of extreme climate events in Antigua, a former British colony in the Lesser Antilles, spanning the years 1770-1890. It employs a range of documentary sources from that period, including government, plantation, missionary and scholarly papers. Two major empirical eleme...

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Main Author: Berland, Alexander Jorge
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2015
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/29292/