Description
| 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 protests, while.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 220 pages) : illustrations |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-214) and index. |
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| ISBN: | 9781439904343
1439904340
9781439904329
1439904324
9781439904336
1439904332
9786613310200
6613310204 |
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| Language: | English. |
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| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
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