The great earthquake and firestorms of 1906 : how San Francisco nearly destroyed itself / Philip L. Fradkin.

By:

Fradkin, Philip L

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Berkeley ; London : University of California Press, 2006, c2005.Description: xxiii, 418 p. : ill., 2 col. map, ports. ; 23 cmISBN:

0520248201

DDC classification:

979.46105 22

Partial contents:

I. . Before : Beginnings - - The tale of two cities - - Science, politics and San Fraancisco - - The hotel and the Opera House - - II. During: Wednesday, April 18 1906 - - Thursday, April 19, 1906 - - Friday, April 20, 2006 - - III. After: The relief effort - - The upbuilding of San Francisco - - The search for understanding - - The culture of disaster - - Disaster and Race - - The politics of disaster - - The fat lady sings.

Subject: The first indication of the prolonged terror that followed the 1906 earthquake occurred when a ship steaming off San Francisco's Golden Gate "seemed to jump clear out of the water." This gripping account of the earthquake, the devastating firestorms that followed, and the city's subsequent reconstruction vividly shows how, after the shaking stopped, humans, not the forces of nature, nearly destroyed San Francisco in a remarkable display of simple ineptitude and power politics. Bolstered by previously unpublished eyewitness accounts and photographs, this definitive history of a fascinating city caught in the grip of the country's greatest urban disaster will forever change conventional understanding of an event one historian called "the very epitome of bigness."

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Australian Emergency Management Library	BOOK	979.46105 FRA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		900184102

Formerly CIP. Uk

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The first indication of the prolonged terror that followed the 1906 earthquake occurred when a ship steaming off San Francisco's Golden Gate "seemed to jump clear out of the water." This gripping account of the earthquake, the devastating firestorms that followed, and the city's subsequent reconstruction vividly shows how, after the shaking stopped, humans, not the forces of nature, nearly destroyed San Francisco in a remarkable display of simple ineptitude and power politics. Bolstered by previously unpublished eyewitness accounts and photographs, this definitive history of a fascinating city caught in the grip of the country's greatest urban disaster will forever change conventional understanding of an event one historian called "the very epitome of bigness."

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