The Upper Classes and Their Upper Stories: Architecture and the Aftermath of the Lima Earthquake of 1746

@article{Walker2003TheUC,
  title={The Upper Classes and Their Upper Stories: Architecture and the Aftermath of the Lima Earthquake of 1746},
  author={Charles F. Walker},
  journal={Hispanic American Historical Review},
  year={2003},
  volume={83},
  pages={53 - 82}
}
Adrian Pearce, José Ragas, Ricardo Ramírez, Andrés Reséndez, Stuart Schwartz, Krystyna von Henneberg, Kathryn Litherland, and the anonymous HAHR readers for their helpful suggestions. I outlined some of the arguments developed here in “Shaking the Unstable Empire: The Lima, Quito, and Arequipa Earthquakes, 1746, 1783, and 1797,” in Dreadful Visitations: Confronting Natural Catastrophe in the Age of Enlightenment, ed. Alessa Johns (New York: Routledge, 1999), 113– 44. 1. Victor Montero de Aguila… Expand
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