Format:
460 S.
,
Ill.
ISBN:
9780226053899
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Introduction: earthquake cracks -- A great commotion: the experience of the New Madrid earthquakes -- Earthquakes and the end of the New Madrid hinterland -- Revival and resistance: earthquakes on native ground -- The quaking body: sensation, electricity, and religious revival -- Vernacular science: knowing earthquakes in the early United States -- Sunk lands and submerged knowledge: how war, swamps, and seismographs hid evidence of the New Madrid earthquakes -- The science of deep history: old accounts and modern science of New Madrid -- Conclusion: memory and earth in the Mississippi Valley.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226053929
Language:
English
Keywords:
New Madrid, Mo.
;
Mississippi-Gebiet
;
Erdbeben
;
Geschichte 1811-1812
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