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Shaky Colonialism - The 1746 Earthquake-Tsunami in Lima, Peru, and Its Long Aftermath (Paperback, New)
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Shaky Colonialism - The 1746 Earthquake-Tsunami in Lima, Peru, and Its Long Aftermath (Paperback, New)
Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book
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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.
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