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Earthquakes have taught us much about our planet's hidden structure and the forces that have shaped it. This knowledge rests not only on the recordings of seismographs but also on the observations of eyewitnesses to destruction. During the nineteenth century, a scientific description of an eart...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Coen, Deborah R. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2012]
Temas:
Earthquakes > History > 19th century.
Earthquakes > Observations > History > 19th century.
Seismology > History.
HISTORY / General.
earthquakes, destruction, natural disasters, alexander von humboldt, charles darwin, mark twain, chalres dickens, karl kraus, ernst mach, john muir, william james, women, gender, memoir, scientific research, physical sciences, geology, citizen science, richter scale, nature, environment, environmentalism, nonfiction, seismology, history, scotland, switzerland, hazard, danger, panic, confusion, fault lines, tectonic plates, austria, california, conservation, preservation, stem.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • ONE. The Human Seismograph
  • TWO. The Planet in the Village: Comrie, Scotland, 1788-1897
  • THREE. News of the Apocalypse
  • FOUR. The Tongues of Seismology: Switzerland, 1855-1912
  • FIVE. Geographies of Hazard
  • SIX. The Moment of Danger
  • SEVEN. Fault Lines and Borderlands: Imperial Austria, 1880-1914
  • EIGHT. What Is the Earth?
  • NINE. The Youngest Land: California, 1853-1906
  • TEN. A True Measure of Violence: California, 1906-1935
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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