Seismic City - An Environmental History of San Francisco''s 1906 Earthquake

Joanna L. Dyl teaches in the Environmental Analysis Program at the Claremont Colleges.

List of contents

Foreword / Paul S. Sutter

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Making Land, Making a City

2. Catastrophe and Its Interpretations

3. Bread Lines and Earthquake Cottages

4. Rebuilding and the Politics of Place

5. Disaster Capitalism in the Streets

6. Plague, Rats, and Undesirable Nature

7. Symbolic Recovery and the Legacies of Disaster

Conclusion

Notes

Manuscript Collections

Index

About the author

Dyl is Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Franklin and Marshall College.

Product details

• Authors: Joanna L Dyl, Joanna L. Dyl, Joanna L./ Sutter Dyl
• Assisted by: Paul S Sutter (Editor), Paul S. Sutter (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9780295746098
• ISBN: 978-0-295-74609-8
• No. of pages: 376
• Series: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books; Weyerhaeuser Environmental Boo; Seismic City
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Amerikanische Geschichte, Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein, USA Westen, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief, HISTORY / Historical Geography, History - U.S., HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)