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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811004503321

Autore

Davies Andrea Rees <1966->

Titolo

Saving San Francisco [[electronic resource] ] : relief and recovery after the 1906 disaster / / Andrea Rees Davies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2012

ISBN

1-283-31020-1

9786613310200

1-4399-0434-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Disciplina

979.4/61051

Soggetti

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

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

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

San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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