Saving San Francisco : Relief and Recovery After the 1906 Disaster /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Davies, Andrea Rees, 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
1900-1999
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906.
Disaster relief > California > San Francisco > History > 20th century.
Earthquakes > California > San Francisco > History > 20th century.
Fires > California > San Francisco > History > 20th century.
Secours aux victimes de catastrophes > Californie > San Francisco > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Tremblements de terre > Californie > San Francisco > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Incendies > Californie > San Francisco > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Tremblement de terre de San Francisco, Calif., 1906.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Disaster relief.
Earthquakes.
Fires.
California.
California > San Francisco.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Points of origin
  • Disaster relief : local troubles, national solutions
  • Disastrous opportunities : unofficial disaster relief
  • Disaster relief camps : the public home of private life
  • The new San Francisco
  • Epilogue : disaster remnants.

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