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Shocks to the natural order: Euroamerican understandings of the New Madrid Earthquakes.

机译:自然秩序的冲击:欧美人对新马德里地震的理解。

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My thesis uses firsthand accounts and early scholarly studies of the New Madrid Earthquakes to investigate the worldviews of a range of Euroamerican observers in the early nineteenth-century United States. Emanating from their epicenter on the Mississippi River in present-day southeastern Missouri, the earthquakes were great and sustained disruptions in nature that frightened and fascinated all sectors of the North American populace. Regardless of one's geographical or social location, observation and empiricism became the vehicles for negotiating the chaos in nature. The widespread Christian conversions in the western territories constituted one means of making sense of the disaster, but backcountry thinkers' observations and interpretations show that trans-Appalachian communities were not merely revivalistic release valves opposing the rationalism and faithful empiricism that early national elites embraced. Euroamericans instead drew from porous systems of scientific and religious knowledge and personal observations to construct their own empirical earthquake analyses.
机译:我的论文使用第一手资料和对新马德里地震的早期学术研究来研究19世纪初美国一系列欧洲观察家的世界观。地震起源于当今密苏里州东南部密西西比河的震中,是自然的巨大持续破坏,令北美民众的各个阶层感到震惊和着迷。不管人的地理位置或社会地位如何,观察和经验主义成为谈判自然界混乱的手段。基督教徒在西方领土上的广泛conversion依是理解这场灾难的一种手段,但是偏远地区的思想家的观察和解释表明,跨阿巴拉契亚人的社区不仅是复兴主义的释放阀,还反对早期民族精英所拥护的理性主义和忠实经验主义。欧美人反而从科学和宗教知识以及个人观察的多孔系统中构建了自己的经验地震分析。

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  • 作者

    Hancock, Jonathan Todd.;

  • 作者单位

    The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.;

  • 授予单位 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.;
  • 学科 History Church.;History United States.;History of Science.
  • 学位 M.A.
  • 年度 2009
  • 页码 57 p.
  • 总页数 57
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 宗教;自然科学史;美洲史;
  • 关键词

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