The Upper Classes and Their Upper Stories: Architecture and the Aftermath of the Lima Earthquake of 1746
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, Desolación de la ciudad de Lima, y dilubio del Puerto del Callao (Lima: Imprenta Nueva, 1746), 1. I read Pablo Emilio Perez-Mallaina Bueno’s important book on the earthquake after the completion of this article and was not able to incorporate it. Retrato de una ciudad en crisis: La sociedad limeña ante el movimiento sismico de 1746 (Seville: EEHA-CSIC/Insituto Riva-Agüero, 2001).