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Aftershocks: Earthquakes and Popular Politics in Latin America
Contributor(s): Buchenau, Jürgen (Editor), Johnson, Lyman L. (Editor)

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 ISBN: 0826346235     ISBN-13: 9780826346230
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
OUR PRICE: $31.45  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: September 2009
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Annotation: In using natural disasters as a way to study societal and especially political change, the essays in this volume illustrate the immediate as well as the long term consequences of destruction.

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | Latin America - General
- Nature | Earthquakes & Volcanoes
- Political Science
Dewey: 980
LCCN: 2009013455
Series: Dialogos (Paperback)
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 8.9" L (0.90 lbs) 242 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Latin America
- Chronological Period - 1851-1899
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
Features: Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Multicultural Review 05/01/2010 pg. 61
 
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Publisher Description:

Earthquakes have helped shape the history of many Latin American nations. The effects of floods, droughts, hurricanes, and earthquakes and tsunamis have destroyed peoples' lives and their built environments, and changed land forms, such as mountains, rivers, forests, and canyons.

This collection of essays focuses on earthquakes in Latin America since the mid-nineteenth century. Often interpreted as evidence of God's wrath, internalized as punishment for sins, and serving as detonators of revolutions, earthquakes have shined an unforgiving light on political corruption and provided new opportunities to previously disadvantaged groups. These analyses of earthquakes reveal the human role in shaping interactions with our environment.

Contributor Bio(s): Buchenau, Jurgen: - Jürgen Buchenau is associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He is the author of In the Shadow of the Giant: The Making of Mexico's Central America Policy, 1876-1930 and coeditor of Governors in the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1952: Portraits in Conflict, Corruption, and Courage.Johnson, Lyman L.: - Lyman L. Johnson is professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He is also the general editor for UNM Press's Dialogos series.
 
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