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Author Valenčius, Conevery Bolton, 1969-
Title The lost history of the New Madrid earthquakes [electronic resource] / Conevery Bolton Valencius.
Publication Info Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2013.


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Descript ix, 460 p. : ill., maps.
Contents 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.
ISBN 9780226053899 (cloth : alkaline paper)
9780226053929 (e-book)
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Author Valenčius, Conevery Bolton, 1969-
Subject New Madrid Earthquakes, 1811-1812.
Earthquakes -- Mississippi River Valley -- History.
Alt author ProQuest (Firm)
Descript ix, 460 p. : ill., maps.
Contents 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.
ISBN 9780226053899 (cloth : alkaline paper)
9780226053929 (e-book)
Author Valenčius, Conevery Bolton, 1969-
Subject New Madrid Earthquakes, 1811-1812.
Earthquakes -- Mississippi River Valley -- History.
Alt author ProQuest (Firm)

Subject New Madrid Earthquakes, 1811-1812.
Earthquakes -- Mississippi River Valley -- History.
Descript ix, 460 p. : ill., maps.
Contents 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.
Alt author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780226053899 (cloth : alkaline paper)
9780226053929 (e-book)
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