Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Introduction: Earthquake Cracks 1
5. 1. A Great Commotion: The Experience of the New Madrid Earthquakes 14
6. 2. Earthquakes and the End of the New Madrid Hinterland 58
7. 3. Revival and Resistance: Earthquakes on Native Ground 106
8. 4. The Quaking Body: Sensation, Electricity, and Religious Revival 145
9. 5. Vernacular Science: Knowing Earthquakes in the Early United States 175
10. 6. Sunk Lands and Submerged Knowledge: How War, Swamps, and Seismographs Hid Evidence of the New Madrid Earthquakes 216
11. 7. The Science of Deep History: Old Accounts and Modern Science of New Madrid 273
12. Conclusion: Memory and Earth in the Mississippi Valley 325
13. Notes 335
14. Bibliographic Essays 391
15. Acknowledgments 439
16. Index 445