02932nam 2200649Ia 450 991045780120332120200520144314.01-283-31020-197866133102001-4399-0434-0(CKB)2550000000063394(EBL)787367(OCoLC)761327124(SSID)ssj0000601796(PQKBManifestationID)11386972(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000601796(PQKBWorkID)10565525(PQKB)10647456(MiAaPQ)EBC787367(MdBmJHUP)muse15290(Au-PeEL)EBL787367(CaPaEBR)ebr10508826(CaONFJC)MIL331020(EXLCZ)99255000000006339420110425d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSaving San Francisco[electronic resource] relief and recovery after the 1906 disaster /Andrea Rees DaviesPhiladelphia Temple University Press20121 online resource (232 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4399-0432-4 1-4399-0433-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 protesDisaster reliefCaliforniaSan FranciscoHistory20th centuryEarthquakesCaliforniaSan FranciscoHistory20th centuryFiresCaliforniaSan FranciscoHistory20th centurySan Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906Electronic books.Disaster reliefHistoryEarthquakesHistoryFiresHistorySan Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906.979.4/61051Davies Andrea Rees1966-1049637MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457801203321Saving San Francisco2478838UNINA