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Contents 1 Acknowledgments 3 Introduction 5 1. Points of Origin: Crises across the City 15 2. Disaster Relief: Local Troubles, National Solutions 46 3. Disastrous Opportunities: Unofficial Disaster Relief 67 4. Disaster Relief Camps: The Public Home of Private Life 89 5. The New San Francisco 116 Epilogue: Disaster Remnants 147 Appendix: Tables 153 Notes 159 Bibliography 205 Index [Includes About the Author] 219 Publisher:Temple University Press,Published:2012,ISBN:9781439904343,Related ISBN:9781439904336,Language:English,OCLC:761327124 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 mobili

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Author

ebrary, Inc.;Davies, Andrea Rees

Publisher

Temple University Press ; Combined Academic [distributor

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781439904343

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Humanities