Sea of Storms: A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina. By Stuart B. Schwartz. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015. Pp. xxi, 439. $35.00.)
The phrase "natural catastrophe" is an oxymoron. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and great storms are all part of nature and on geological time scales are as normal as breathing is to us. The catastrophe is that we insist on building and living on earthquake faults, in floodplains, on the...
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