Aftershocks : earthquakes and popular politics in Latin America
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Aftershocks : earthquakes and popular politics in Latin America
(Diálogos)
University of New Mexico Press, 2009
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Note
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
Description and Table of Contents
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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