When the Mississippi ran backwards : empire, intrigue, murder, and the New Madrid earthquakes / Jay Feldman.

Author
Feldman, Jay, 1943- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York, N.Y. : Free Press, ©2005.
Description
viii, 307 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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    Summary note
    An account of the ecological and historical impact of a series of Mississippi River Valley earthquakes in 1811 and 1812 documents how towns were destroyed and political loyalties were altered, changing the course of the War of 1812.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-294) and index.
    Contents
    • I: Portents
    • A time of extraordinaries
    • II: Rumblings
    • A country equal to our most sanguine wishes
    • Disappointments and sufferings
    • One of those uncommon geniuses
    • The impending destruction
    • The bloody ground
    • The monster of the waters
    • III: Upheaval
    • All nature was in a state of dissolution
    • A real chaos
    • IV: Aftershocks
    • The accumulated load of public odium
    • A war of extirpation
    • The fatal blow
    • The field of slaughter.
    ISBN
    • 0743242785 ((alk. paper))
    • 9780743242783 ((alk. paper))
    • 9780743242790 ((pbk.))
    • 0743242793 ((pbk.))
    LCCN
    2004057537
    OCLC
    56685129
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