| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.4

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Book Review

Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624–1783. By Matthew Mulcahy. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xii, 257 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8018-8223-0.)

Matthew Mulcahy's book about hurricanes in British America is timely for a variety of reasons. Obviously, the horrific storms that devastated the Gulf Coast in 2006 provided a powerful reminder of the potential consequences of hurricanes in any historical period. On another note, historians have paid much more attention in recent decades to British plantation colonies, enabling Mulcahy to situate his work in a growing and sophisticated body of scholarship. These storms played an undeniably important role in the lives of colonists, especially in the West Indies. Indeed, it is tempting to conclude that scholars would have known more about them a long time ago if their fury had been unleashed on New England towns instead of tropical plantations. Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624–1783 will also be a welcome arrival for the increasing number of scholars interested in environmental history.

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