Matthew Mulcahy
Biographic Data
| ID | 617744 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Mulcahy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Mulcahy |
| SIGNATURE | MULCAHY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University Maryland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Fragile Empire
April G. Shelford. A Caribbean Enlightenment
Immeasurable Weather
Pelagianismus – eine konstruierte Häresie
Sea and Land
Sea and Land provides an in-depth environmental history of the Caribbean to ca. 1850, comprising a close examination of some of the central forces and characteristics that defined the region, with a coda that takes the story into the modern era. It explores the mixing, movement, and displacement of peoples and the parallel ecological mixing of animals, plants, microbes from Africa, Europe, elsewhere in the Americas, and indeed Asia. It examines f…
Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery
This richly illustrated and engaging comparative study focuses on visual representations of plantations in three frontier zones of economic expansion during the nineteenth century: the world of cotton in the lower Mississippi Valley of the United States, sugar plantations in the interior of Cuba, and the coffee zone in the Paraíba Valley of Brazil. Each region became a world leader in the production of their respective crops during what one of th…
An Empire Transformed
Reviewed by: An Empire Transformed: Remolding Bodies and Landscapes in the Restoration Atlantic by Kate Luce Mulry Matthew Mulcahy An Empire Transformed: Remolding Bodies and Landscapes in the Restoration Atlantic. By Kate Luce Mulry. Early American Places. New York: New York University Press, 2021. 372 pages. Cloth, ebook. Kate Luce Mulry’s ambitious and expansive An Empire Transformed suggests that when Charles II regained the thrones of Englan…
Plantation Coffee in Jamaica, 1790–1848, by Kathleen E.A. Monteith
Nature's Battalions
Among the many environmental hazards that challenged European efforts to colonize the early modern Caribbean were insect infestations of one kind or another. Though scholars have long highlighted the dangers associated with mosquitoes and mosquito-borne diseases, they have paid less attention to the impact of insects on agriculture, the economic foundation for empire in the Caribbean. At various times, caterpillars, grasshoppers, or so-called sug…
The Experimental Caribbean
Documenting Life “Beyond the Line”
Documenting Life “Beyond the Line” Matthew Mulcahy The Early English Caribbean, 1570–1700 Edited by Carla Gardina Pestana and Sharon V. Salinger. London: Pickering and Chato, 2014. 4 volumes. Almost forty years ago, Jack Greene wrote a lengthy review essay highlighting the “sudden efflorescence of scholarship” that had recently appeared on the history of the seventeenth and eighteenth century Caribbean. Reviewing six new books by Carl and Roberta…
Hubs of Empire
Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624-1783
The Orphan Tsunami of 1700
Weathering the Storms
The risk of hurricanes made planting in the British Greater Caribbean, a region stretching from Barbados through South Carolina, an especially volatile and uncertain business during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The storms were a new experience for European colonists, and they quickly became the most feared element of the region's environment. Hurricanes routinely leveled plantations and towns, destroyed crops and infrastructure, and …
Winds of Change
Louis Perez’s wonderful new book is a welcome addition to an emerging field of study. Natural disasters, especially hurricanes, have attracted little serious attention from historians of the Caribbean (or elsewhere, for that matter). Individual calamities often appear as dramatic scenes in larger studies of cities, colonies, and nations, but few scholars have considered hurricanes as important agents of change in themselves or explored the impact…
Geographic Variables in the Pums
Weathering the Storms
The risk of hurricanes made planting in the British Greater Caribbean, a region stretching from Barbados through South Carolina, an especially volatile and uncertain business during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The storms were a new experience for European colonists, and they quickly became the most feared element of the region's environment. Hurricanes routinely leveled plantations and towns, destroyed crops and infrastructure, and …
Sea and Land
Sea and Land provides an in-depth environmental history of the Caribbean to ca. 1850, comprising a close examination of some of the central forces and characteristics that defined the region, with a coda that takes the story into the modern era. It explores the mixing, movement, and displacement of peoples and the parallel ecological mixing of animals, plants, microbes from Africa, Europe, elsewhere in the Americas, and indeed Asia. It examines f…
Immeasurable Weather
Nature's Battalions
Among the many environmental hazards that challenged European efforts to colonize the early modern Caribbean were insect infestations of one kind or another. Though scholars have long highlighted the dangers associated with mosquitoes and mosquito-borne diseases, they have paid less attention to the impact of insects on agriculture, the economic foundation for empire in the Caribbean. At various times, caterpillars, grasshoppers, or so-called sug…
The Orphan Tsunami of 1700
Geographic Variables in the Pums
Geographic Variables in the Pums
Winds of Change
Louis Perez’s wonderful new book is a welcome addition to an emerging field of study. Natural disasters, especially hurricanes, have attracted little serious attention from historians of the Caribbean (or elsewhere, for that matter). Individual calamities often appear as dramatic scenes in larger studies of cities, colonies, and nations, but few scholars have considered hurricanes as important agents of change in themselves or explored the impact…
Weathering the Storms
The risk of hurricanes made planting in the British Greater Caribbean, a region stretching from Barbados through South Carolina, an especially volatile and uncertain business during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The storms were a new experience for European colonists, and they quickly became the most feared element of the region's environment. Hurricanes routinely leveled plantations and towns, destroyed crops and infrastructure, and …
The Orphan Tsunami of 1700
Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624-1783
Hubs of Empire
Documenting Life “Beyond the Line”
Documenting Life “Beyond the Line” Matthew Mulcahy The Early English Caribbean, 1570–1700 Edited by Carla Gardina Pestana and Sharon V. Salinger. London: Pickering and Chato, 2014. 4 volumes. Almost forty years ago, Jack Greene wrote a lengthy review essay highlighting the “sudden efflorescence of scholarship” that had recently appeared on the history of the seventeenth and eighteenth century Caribbean. Reviewing six new books by Carl and Roberta…
The Experimental Caribbean
Nature's Battalions
Among the many environmental hazards that challenged European efforts to colonize the early modern Caribbean were insect infestations of one kind or another. Though scholars have long highlighted the dangers associated with mosquitoes and mosquito-borne diseases, they have paid less attention to the impact of insects on agriculture, the economic foundation for empire in the Caribbean. At various times, caterpillars, grasshoppers, or so-called sug…
Plantation Coffee in Jamaica, 1790–1848, by Kathleen E.A. Monteith
Sea and Land
Sea and Land provides an in-depth environmental history of the Caribbean to ca. 1850, comprising a close examination of some of the central forces and characteristics that defined the region, with a coda that takes the story into the modern era. It explores the mixing, movement, and displacement of peoples and the parallel ecological mixing of animals, plants, microbes from Africa, Europe, elsewhere in the Americas, and indeed Asia. It examines f…
Reconstructing the Landscapes of Slavery
This richly illustrated and engaging comparative study focuses on visual representations of plantations in three frontier zones of economic expansion during the nineteenth century: the world of cotton in the lower Mississippi Valley of the United States, sugar plantations in the interior of Cuba, and the coffee zone in the Paraíba Valley of Brazil. Each region became a world leader in the production of their respective crops during what one of th…
An Empire Transformed
Reviewed by: An Empire Transformed: Remolding Bodies and Landscapes in the Restoration Atlantic by Kate Luce Mulry Matthew Mulcahy An Empire Transformed: Remolding Bodies and Landscapes in the Restoration Atlantic. By Kate Luce Mulry. Early American Places. New York: New York University Press, 2021. 372 pages. Cloth, ebook. Kate Luce Mulry’s ambitious and expansive An Empire Transformed suggests that when Charles II regained the thrones of Englan…
Pelagianismus – eine konstruierte Häresie
Immeasurable Weather
April G. Shelford. A Caribbean Enlightenment
Fragile Empire
History (13 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · History (9 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Economic history (6 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Colonialism (4 works) · Empire (4 works)