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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Berland, Alexander Jorge
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2015
Subjects:	Climate history Caribbean Lesser Antilles drought hurricane extreme weather slavery vulnerability disasters colonial geography
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/29292/

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