Aftershocks
Subtitle: earthquakes and popular politics in Latin America
By: edited by Jürgen Buchenau and Lyman L. Johnson.
Contributors: Buchenau, Jürgen, 1964-; Johnson, Lyman L.
Series: Diálogos
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780826346230
Subjects: Earthquakes -- Political aspects -- Latin America -- History; Earthquakes -- Social aspects -- Latin America -- History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Earthquakes and Latin American political culture / Jürgen Buchenau and Lyman L. Johnson; title: Great balls of fire : premonitions and the destruction of Lima, 1746; title: Charles F. Walker; title: Nature, God, and nation in revolutionary Venezuela : the Holy Thursday earthquake of 1812 / Stuart McCook; title: Social and political fault lines : the Valparaíso earthquake of 1906 / Samuel J. Martland; title: The "superstition of adobe" and the certainty of concrete : shelter and power after the 1944 San Juan earthquake in Argentina /  Mark Alan Healey; title: Natural disaster, political earthquake : the 1972 destruction of Managua and the Somoza Dynasty / Paul J. Dosal; title: Under God's thumb : the 1976 Guatemala earthquake / Virginia Garrard-Burnett; title: Economic fault lines and middle-class fears : Tlatelolco, Mexico City, 1985 / Louise E. Walker.