Saving San Francisco : Relief and Recovery After the 1906 Disaster

Saving San Francisco : Relief and Recovery After the 1906 Disaster / Andrea Rees Davies.

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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主要作者: Davies, Andrea Rees, 1966- (Author)
格式: 電子書
語言:English
出版: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2012.
主題:
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.
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
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書本目錄:
  • 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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