The lost history of the New Madrid earthquakes /Conevery Bolton Valencius.
Valenčius, Conevery Bolton, 1969-
The lost history of the New Madrid earthquakes /Conevery Bolton Valencius. - Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies 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.
9780226053929
New Madrid Earthquakes, 1811-1812.
Earthquakes--History.--Mississippi River Valley
Electronic Books.
QE535 / .L678 2013
The lost history of the New Madrid earthquakes /Conevery Bolton Valencius. - Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, (c)2013. - 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies 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.
9780226053929
New Madrid Earthquakes, 1811-1812.
Earthquakes--History.--Mississippi River Valley
Electronic Books.
QE535 / .L678 2013