The earthquake observers : disaster science from Lisbon to Richter / Deborah R. Coen.

  • Coen, Deborah R.
Date:
2013, ©2013
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Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013, ©2013.

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348 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-343) and index.

Contents

The human seismograph -- The planet in the village: Comrie, Scotland, 1788-1897 -- News of the apocalypse -- The tongues of seismology: Switzerland, 1855-1912 -- Geographies of hazard -- The moment of danger -- Fault lines and borderlands: imperial Austria, 1880-1914 -- What is the earth? -- The youngest land: California, 1853-1906 -- A true measure of violence: California, 1906-1935.

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    Medical Collection
    QE539 2013C67e
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  • 9780226111810
  • 0226111814