Seismic City : An Environmental History of San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake.
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TextSeries: Weyerhaeuser Environmental BksPublisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (377 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780295742472
- San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906
- Earthquakes-Environmental aspects-California-San Francisco-History-20th century
- Natural disasters-Environmental aspects-California-San Francisco-History-20th century
- Earthquakes-Social aspects-California-San Francisco-20th century
- Natural disasters-Social aspects-California-San Francisco-History-20th century
- Urban ecology (Sociology)-California-an Francisco-History-20th century
- San Francisco (Calif.)-Environmental conditions-History-20th century
- San Francisco (Calif.)-Social conditions-20th century
- 979.461051
- WEB
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- ONE Making Land, Making a City -- TWO Catastrophe and Its Interpretations -- THREE Bread Lines and Earthquake Cottages -- FOUR Rebuilding and the Politics of Place -- FIVE Disaster Capitalism in the Streets -- SIX Plague, Rats, and Undesirable Nature -- SEVEN Symbolic Recovery and the Legacies of Disaster -- CONCLUSION -- Notes -- Manuscript Collections -- Index.
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