Saving San Francisco: Relief and Recovery after the 1906 Disaster

Davies, Andrea Rees

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Langue : anglais

Edité par Temple University Press, 2012

1439904332 / 9781439904336

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Philadelphia. 2012. Temple University Press. Reprinted Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9781439904336. 220 pages. paperback. Cover design: Mia Risberg. keywords: History San Francisco. DESCRIPTION - How the relief and rebuilding efforts after the 1906 disaster reproduced the class and racial divisions of pre-quake San Francisco. Davies uses the 1906 disaster as a lens through which to ask hard questions about the social and political life of San Francisco. She successfully weaves together the intricate stories of ordinary people's struggles and daily lives with high politics, urban history, and analyses of race, class, and gender. Important, smart, and crisply written, Saving San Francisco is both forceful and lively, and Davies's Epilogue about master disaster narratives is a graceful, moving close to what will become 'the' book on this subject for years to come. ' - Barbara Berglund, Associate Professor of History at the University of South Florida and author of Making San Francisco American: Cultural Frontiers in the Urban West, 1846-1906 Saving San Francisco makes an original contribution to San Francisco history and to the study of how cities respond to natural disasters. Davies has written the first systematic social and political history of the recovery efforts after the earthquake and fire of 1906. Using a rich variety of archival evidence, including an excellent selection of personal stories, she contributes to both social welfare and Progressive Era scholarship. This is a convincing revisionist account that shows how the recovery process was shaped by existing gender, class, and racial fault lines in San Francisco society. ' -William Issel, Professor of History Emeritus at San Francisco State University and coauthor (with Robert W. Cherny) of San Francisco, 1865-1932: Politics, Power, and Urban Development 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 Chinatown business leaders and middle-class white women mobilized resources for the less privileged. Ultimately, however, the political and financial elite shaped relief and reconstruction efforts and cemented social differences in San Francisco. inventory #43037.…

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Titre
Saving San Francisco: Relief and Recovery after the 1906 Disaster
Auteur
Davies, Andrea Rees
Éditeur
Temple University Press
Année de publication
2012
État de l'article
Very Good in Wrappers
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No Jacket
Reliure
paperback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
1439904332
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9781439904336

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