Dyl, Joanna L.

Seismic City : An Environmental History of San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (377 pages) - Weyerhaeuser Environmental Bks. . - Weyerhaeuser Environmental Bks. .

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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San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906.
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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.


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