
Convulsed States
Earthquakes, Prophecy, and the Remaking of Early America
Jonathan Todd Hancock
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 02/2021
Pages: 204
Subject: History, Social Science, Science
Print ISBN: 9781469662176
eBook ISBN: 9781469662190
DESCRIPTION
Through varied peoples' efforts to come to grips with the New Madrid earthquakes, Hancock reframes early nineteenth-century North America as a site where all of its inhabitants wrestled with fundamental human questions amid prophecies, political reinventions, and war.
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