| Description |
1 online resource (x, 220 pages) : illustrations |
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| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-214) and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
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| Language |
English. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906.
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Disaster relief -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- 20th century.
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Disaster relief. |
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Earthquakes. |
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History. |
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California -- San Francisco. |
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Earthquakes -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- 20th century.
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Fires -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- 20th century.
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Fires. |
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General. |
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) |
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California. |
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San Francisco Earthquake and Fire (California : 1906) |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Davies, Andrea Rees, 1966- Saving San Francisco. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2012 9781439904329 (DLC) 2011016210 (OCoLC)715287441 |
| ISBN |
9781439904343 (electronic book) |
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1439904340 (electronic book) |
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9781439904329 (electronic book) |
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1439904324 (electronic book) |
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9781439904336 (electronic book) |
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1439904332 (electronic book) |
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9786613310200 |
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6613310204 |
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1283310201 |
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9781283310208 |
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