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

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2009.
Description
xi, 230 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

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Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Introduction. Earthquakes and Latin American Political Culture / Jurgen Buchenau and Lyman L. Johnson
  • Ch. 1. Great Balls of Fire: Premonitions and the Destruction of Lima, 1746 / Charles F. Walker
  • Ch. 2. Nature, God, and Nation in Revolutionary Venezuela: The Holy Thursday Earthquake of 1812 / Stuart McCook
  • Ch. 3. Social and Political Fault Lines: The Valparaiso Earthqualze of 1906 / Samuel J. Martland
  • Ch. 4. The "Superstition of Adobe" and the Certainty of Concrete: Shelter and Power after the 1944 San Juan Earthquake in Argentina / Mark Alan Healey
  • Ch. 5. Natural Disaster, Political Earthquake: The 1972 Destruction of Managua and the Somoza Dynasty / Paul J. Dosal
  • Ch. 6. Under God's Thumb: The 1976 Guatemala Earthquake / Virginia Garrard-Burnett
  • Ch. 7. 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
RCP
C - S
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