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

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

Sommario

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

Info autore

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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Joanna L Dyl, Joanna L. Dyl, Joanna L./ Sutter Dyl
• Con la collaborazione di: Paul S Sutter (Editore), Paul S. Sutter (Editore)
• Editore: University Of Washington Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9780295746098
• ISBN: 978-0-295-74609-8
• Pagine: 277
• Serie: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books; Weyerhaeuser Environmental Boo; Seismic City; Weyerhaeuser Environmental BooksWeyerhaeuser Environmental BooksWeyerhaeuser Environmental BooksWeyerhaeuser Environmental BooksWeyerhaeuser Environmental BooksSeismic City
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Geografia; 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)