The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9780226053899
Table of contents: title: Introduction: earthquake cracks; title: A great commotion: the experience of the New Madrid earthquakes; title: Earthquakes and the end of the New Madrid hinterland; title: Revival and resistance: earthquakes on native ground; title: The quaking body: sensation, electricity, and religious revival; title: Vernacular science: knowing earthquakes in the early United States; title: Sunk lands and submerged knowledge: how war, swamps, and seismographs hid evidence of the New Madrid earthquakes; title: The science of deep history: old accounts and modern science of New Madrid; title: Conclusion: memory and earth in the Mississippi Valley