Aftershocks : earthquakes and popular politics in Latin America / edited by Jürgen Buchenau and Lyman L. Johnson.

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English
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Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2009.
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xi, 230 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Earthquakes and Latin American political culture / Jürgen Buchenau and Lyman L. Johnson
    • Great balls of fire : premonitions and the destruction of Lima, 1746 / Charles F. Walker
    • Nature, God, and nation in revolutionary Venezuela : the Holy Thursday earthquake of 1812 / Stuart McCook
    • Social and political fault lines : the Valparaíso earthquake of 1906 / Samuel J. Martland
    • The "superstition of adobe" and the certainty of concrete : shelter and power after the 1944 San Juan earthquake in Argentina / Mark Alan Healey
    • Natural disaster, political earthquake : the 1972 destruction of Managua and the Somoza Dynasty / Paul J. Dosal
    • Under God's thumb : the 1976 Guatemala earthquake / Virginia Garrard-Burnett
    • Economic fault lines and middle-class fears : Tlatelolco, Mexico City, 1985 / Louise E. Walker.
    ISBN
    • 9780826346230 (pbk. : alk. paper)
    • 0826346235 (pbk. : alk. paper)
    LCCN
    2009013455
    OCLC
    317778254
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