"During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, hurricanes posed unique challenges for the colonists in the British Greater Caribbean." "In this pathbreaking study, Matthew Mulcahy examines how colonists made sense of hurricanes, how they recovered from them, and the role of t…
"During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, hurricanes posed unique challenges for the colonists in the British Greater Caribbean." "In this pathbreaking study, Matthew Mulcahy examines how colonists made sense of hurricanes, how they recovered from them, and the role of t…
"In Hubs of Empire, Matthew Mulcahy argues that it is useful to view Barbados, Jamaica, and the British Leeward Islands, along with the South Carolina and Georgia Lowcountry, as a single region. Separated by thousands of miles of ocean but united by shared history and economic i…
"The colonial Low Country (the Carolinas, Georgia) and British Caribbean made up an integrated region quite distinct from the Chesapeake, Mid-Atlantic, or New England. Like Maryland and Virginia, the greater Southeast--which formed, as Mulcahy argues, a dynamic center of the Bri…
"In Hubs of Empire, Matthew Mulcahy argues that it is useful to view Barbados, Jamaica, and the British Leeward Islands, along with the South Carolina and Georgia Lowcountry, as a single region. Separated by thousands of miles of ocean but united by shared history and economic i…