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The lost history of the New Madrid earthquakes /Conevery Bolton Valencius.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, (c)2013.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780226053929
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • QE535 .L678 2013
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Contents:
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.
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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.

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