Aftershocks : earthquakes and popular politics in Latin America
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Aftershocks : earthquakes and popular politics in Latin America
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University of New Mexico Press, 2009
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- 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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Description
Earthquakes have helped shape the history of many Latin American nations. The effects of floods, droughts, hurricanes, and earthquakes and tsunamis have destroyed people's lives and their built environments, and changed land forms, such as mountains, rivers, forests, and canyons. This collection of essays focuses on earthquakes in Latin America since the mid-nineteenth century. Often interpreted as evidence of God's wrath, internalized as punishment for sins, and serving as detonators of revolutions, earthquakes have shined an unforgiving light on political corruption and provided new opportunities to previously disadvantaged groups. These analyses of earthquakes reveal the human role in shaping interactions with our environment.
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