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Natural Disasters And Comparative State-Formation And Nation-Building: Earthquakes In Argentina And Chile (1822-1939), Quinn Dauer
Natural Disasters And Comparative State-Formation And Nation-Building: Earthquakes In Argentina And Chile (1822-1939), Quinn Dauer
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Natural disasters in Argentina and Chile played a significant role in the state-formation and nation-building process (1822-1939). This dissertation explores state and society responses to earthquakes by studying public and private relief efforts reconstruction plans, crime and disorder, religious interpretations of catastrophes, national and transnational cultures of disaster, science and technology, and popular politics. Although Argentina and Chile share a political border and geological boundary, the two countries provide contrasting examples of state formation. Most disaster relief and reconstruction efforts emanated from the centralized Chilean state in Santiago. In Argentina, provincial officials made the majority of decisions in a catastrophe’s …