Saving San Francisco : relief and recovery after the 1906 disaster / Andrea Rees Davies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davies, Andrea Rees, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disaster relief--California--San Francisco--History--20th century.

Disaster relief.

Earthquakes--California--San Francisco--History--20th century.

Earthquakes.

Fires--California--San Francisco--History--20th century.

Fires.

San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 p.)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 protes

Contents:

Points of origin : crises across the city

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613310200

9781283310208

1283310201

9781439904343

1439904340

OCLC:

761327124