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  Title

  Volcanoes in human history : the far-reaching effects of major eruptions

  Author

  Zeilinga de Boer, Jelle.  

  Publisher:

  Princeton University Press,

  Pub date:

  c2002.

  Pages:

  xvii, 295 p. :

  ISBN:

  0691050813

  Item info:

  1 copy available at Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library.
  

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    Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library	Copies	Material	Location	Map
    QE522.B637 2002	1	Book	Available, On shelf

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  ISBN:

  0691050813

  Personal Author:

  Zeilinga de Boer, Jelle.

  Title:

  Volcanoes in human history : the far-reaching effects of major eruptions / Jelle Zeilinga de Boer and Donald Theodore Sanders.

  Publication info:

  Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2002.

  Physical description:

  xvii, 295 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

  Contents:

  Volcanism : origins and consequences -- The Hawaiian Islands and the legacy of Pele the fire goddess -- The Bronze Age eruption of Thera : destroyer of Atlantis and Minoan Crete? -- The eruption of Vesuvius in 79 C.E. : cultural reverberations through the ages -- Iceland : coming apart at the seams -- The eruption of Tambora in 1815 and "the year without a summer" -- Krakatau, 1883 : devastation, death, and ecologic revival -- The 1902 eruption of Mount Pelée : a geological catastrophe with political overtones -- Tristan da Cunha in 1961 : exile to the twentieth century -- Mount St. Helens in 1980 : catastrophe in the Cascades.

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  Subject term:

  Volcanoes.

  Subject term:

  Human beings--Effect of environment on.

  Subject term:

  Volcanism.

  Added Entry-Personal Name:

  Sanders, Donald Theodore.

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