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Shaky Colonialism: The 1746 Earthquake-Tsunami in Lima, Peru, and Its Long Aftermath (Latin America Otherwise)

Shaky Colonialism: The 1746 Earthquake-Tsunami in Lima, Peru, and Its Long Aftermath (Latin America Otherwise)

Shaky Colonialism: The 1746 Earthquake-Tsunami in Lima, Peru, and Its Long
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Shaky Colonialism: The 1746 Earthquake-Tsunami in Lima, Peru, and Its Long Aftermath (Latin America Otherwise) Trade paperback - 2008

by Charles F.Walker

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Duke University Press, June 2008. Trade Paperback. VG. used trade paperback edition. lightly shelfworn, corners perhaps slightly bumped. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.
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  • Title Shaky Colonialism: The 1746 Earthquake-Tsunami in Lima, Peru, and Its Long Aftermath (Latin America Otherwise)
  • Author Charles F.Walker
  • Binding Trade Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Condition Used - VG
  • Pages 280
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press, Durham, NC, U.S.A.
  • Date June 2008
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 1418194
  • ISBN 9780822341895 / 0822341891
  • Weight 0.86 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.94 x 6.3 x 0.66 in (22.71 x 16.00 x 1.68 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 18th Century
    • Cultural Region: Latin America
  • Library of Congress subjects Lima (Peru) - History - 18th century, Earthquakes - Social aspects - Peru - Lima
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007043971
  • Dewey Decimal Code 985.250

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From the publisher

Contemporary natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina are quickly followed by disagreements about whether and how communities should be rebuilt, whether political leaders represent the community's best interests, and whether the devastation could have been prevented. Shaky Colonialism demonstrates that many of the same issues animated the aftermath of disasters more than 250 years ago. On October 28, 1746, a massive earthquake ravaged Lima, a bustling city of 50,000, capital of the Peruvian Viceroyalty, and the heart of Spain's territories in South America. Half an hour later, a tsunami destroyed the nearby port of Callao. The earthquake-tsunami demolished churches and major buildings, damaged food and water supplies, and suspended normal social codes, throwing people of different social classes together and prompting widespread chaos. In Shaky Colonialism, Charles F. Walker examines reactions to the catastrophe, the Viceroy's plans to rebuild the city, and the opposition he encountered from the Church, the Spanish Crown, and Lima's multiracial population.

Through his ambitious rebuilding plan, the Viceroy sought to assert the power of the colonial state over the Church, the upper classes, and other groups. Agreeing with most inhabitants of the fervently Catholic city that the earthquake-tsunami was a manifestation of God's wrath for Lima's decadent ways, he hoped to reign in the city's baroque excesses and to tame the city's notoriously independent women. To his great surprise, almost everyone objected to his plan, sparking widespread debate about political power and urbanism. Illuminating the shaky foundations of Spanish control in Lima, Walker describes the latent conflicts--about class, race, gender, religion, and the very definition of an ordered society--brought to the fore by the earthquake-tsunami of 1746.

From the rear cover

""Shaky Colonialism "is a superior work of scholarship. Charles F. Walker uses a dramatic incident and its aftermath to present a very intelligent analysis of baroque colonialism and its halting transformation into the Enlightenment-inspired absolutism of the Bourbons. He balances human drama and color to pull the reader into a very serious analysis of colonial society."--Peter Guardino, author of "The Time of Liberty: Popular Political Culture in Oaxaca, 1750-1850"

About the author

Charles F. Walker is Professor of History and Director of the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Smoldering Ashes: Cuzco and the Creation of Republican Peru, 1780-1840, also published by Duke University Press.

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