Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes

Name: Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes
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ISBN: 9780226053899

ISBN-10: 022605389X

ISBN-13: 9780226053899

Edition: 2013

Authors: Conevery Bolton Valencius

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From December 1811 to February 1812, massive earthquakes shook the middle Mississippi Valley, collapsing homes, snapping large trees midtrunk, and briefly but dramatically reversing the flow of the continent’s mightiest river. For decades, people puzzled over the causes of the quakes, but by the time the nation began to recover from the Civil War, the New Madrid earthquakes had been essentially forgotten. In The Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes, Conevery Bolton Valencius remembers this major environmental disaster, demonstrating how events that have been long forgotten, even denied and ridiculed as tall tales, were in fact enormously important at the time of their…

Book details

Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/25/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 472
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English



List of Illustrations


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


Notes


Bibliographic Essays


Acknowledgments


Index