Upheaval in Charleston earthquake and murder on the eve of Jim Crow /
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Athens, Ga. :
University of Georgia Press,
c2011.
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Preface : living with disaster
- The great shock
- Seeds of destruction
- "The earthquake is upon us!"
- A world turned upside down
- The earthquake hunters
- Aftershocks
- An angry God
- Labor Day
- "Bury the dead and feed the living"
- The comforts of science
- Relief
- Waiting for the apocalypse
- Rising from the ruins
- The old joy of combat
- Wrapped in the stars and stripes
- Fault lines
- Standing over a volcano
- Killing Captain Dawson
- The trial
- Epilogue : rebuilding the walls.