Aftershocks: Earthquakes and Popular Politics in Latin America (Diálogos Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826346235 ISBN 13: 9780826346230

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press, 2009

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

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.

About the Author:

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.

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0826346235
• ISBN 13: 9780826346230
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 242
• Editor: Buchenau Jürgen, Johnson Lyman L.