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Seismic city : an environmental history of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake

Title: Seismic city : an environmental history of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake / Joanna L. Dyl.
Author: Dyl, Joanna Leslie, 1973-
Publication: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2017]

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Additional Authors

Sutter, Paul

Description

xvii, 355 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

"Seismic City argues that the disaster of 1906 must be understood as part of the ordinary relationship between the city and its natural surroundings. Despite its short-term drama and immediate impact on people's lives, the 1906 earthquake and fire did not transform the history of San Francisco. Instead, San Franciscans rapidly incorporated the crisis into pre-existing debates about urban ecology, urban development, and social relations in the city. In the modern era, Americans have generally viewed 'natural' disasters as anomalous, exceptional events. Interpreting disasters as unpredictable 'acts of nature' that represent a disruption of ordinary life has justified a failure to adequately plan for disasters and concealed the ways in which social factors such as poverty play as much of a role in causing disasters as the geological or meteorological events that precipitate crises. By applying these insights to a close study of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake, including the decades leading up to the disaster and the city's recovery in the years after 1906, this project demonstrates how disaster and recovery became integrated into San Francisco's history, rather than transforming the city, and makes an important contribution to the interdisciplinary field of natural disaster studies"--Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

Weyerhaeuser environmental books

Uniform Title

Weyerhaeuser environmental book.

Subjects

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-344) and index.

Contents

Foreword / by Paul S. Sutter -- Introduction -- Making land, making a city -- Catastrophe and its interpretations -- Bread lines and earthquake cottages -- Rebuilding and the politics of place -- Disaster capitalism in the streets -- Plague, rats, and undesirable nature -- Symbolic recovery and the legacies of disaster -- Conclusion.

Call Number

JFE 18-178

ISBN

9780295742465
0295742461

LCCN

2017007242
40027594360

OCLC

975270295

Author

Dyl, Joanna Leslie, 1973- author.

Title

Seismic city : an environmental history of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake / Joanna L. Dyl.

Publisher

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2017]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Weyerhaeuser environmental books

Weyerhaeuser environmental book.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-344) and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Sutter, Paul, writer of foreword.

Other Form:

Online version: Dyl, Joanna Leslie, 1973- Seismic city. 1st edition. Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2017 9780295742472 (DLC) 2017012222

Other Standard Identifier

40027594360

Research Call Number

JFE 18-178

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