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Saving San Francisco : Relief and Recovery After the 1906 Disaster /
Combining the experiences of ordinary people with urban politics and history, Saving San Francisco challenges the long-lived myth that the 1906 disaster erased social differences as it leveled the city. Highlighting new evidence from San Francisco's relief camps, Andrea Rees Davies shows that a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Combining the experiences of ordinary people with urban politics and history, Saving San Francisco challenges the long-lived myth that the 1906 disaster erased social differences as it leveled the city. Highlighting new evidence from San Francisco's relief camps, Andrea Rees Davies shows that as policy makers directed various forms of aid to groups and projects that enjoyed high social status before the disaster, the widespread need and dislocation created opportunities for some groups to challenge biased relief policy. Poor and working-class refugees organized successful protests, while. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 220 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-214) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781439904343 1439904340 9781439904329 1439904324 9781439904336 1439904332 9786613310200 6613310204 |