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Subject(s)

• Earthquakes—Political aspects—Latin America—History [Browse]
• Earthquakes—Social aspects—Latin America—History [Browse]

Related name

• Buchenau, Jürgen, 1964- [Browse]
• Johnson, Lyman L. [Browse]

Series

• Diálogos (Albuquerque, N.M.) [More in this series]
• Diálogos

Bibliographic references

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.

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ISBN

• 9780826346230 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0826346235 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2009013455

OCLC

317778254

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