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Climate and catastrophe in Cuba and the Atlantic world in the age of revolution by Johnson, Sherry, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Cursed by Nature -- Be Content with Things at Which Nature Almost Revolted -- It Appeared as If the World Were Ending -- The Violence Done to Our Interests -- In a Common Catastrophe All Men Should Be Brothers -- The Tomb That Is the Almendares River -- So Contrary to Sound Policy and Reason -- Appendix 1: A Chronology of Alternating Periods of Drought and Hurricanes in Cuba and the Greater Caribbean, Juxtaposed with Major Historical "Events," 1749-1800 -- Appendix 2: Sources for the Maps.…”
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Poems from Guantánamo the detainees speak /

Table of Contents: “…/ Osama Abu Kabir -- Hunger strike poem / Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif -- I am sorry, my brother / Othman Abdulraheem Mohammad -- Terrorist 2003 / Martin Mubanga -- I write my hidden longing / Abdulla Majid al Noaimi, the captive of dignity -- My heart was wounded by the strangeness / Abdulla Majid al Noaimi, the captive of dignity -- Ode to the sea / Ibrahim al Rubaish -- Even if the pain / Siddiq Turkestani.…”
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