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

• Autore: Davies Andrea Rees <1966->
• Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (232 p.)
• Disciplina: 979.4/61051
• Soggetto topico: 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
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Saving San Francisco
• ISBN: 1-283-31020-1; 9786613310200; 1-4399-0434-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811004503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II