The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906: How San Francisco Nearly Destroyed Itself Paperback - 2006
by Philip L. Fradkin
"In this well-researched book, Fradkin contends that it was the people of San Francisco, not the forces of nature, who were responsible for the extent of the destruction and death."--"Booklist."
First line
Northern California has never been an easy place to live, although it might seem otherwise to the casual visitor.
From the rear cover
"Before he wrote books, Philip Fradkin was a newspaperman, and this vivid book has the directness, the reliability, and the reliance on original sources of good journalism. It dismisses some of the legends of the earthquake and gives us new information just as gripping. I am already using it as a reference book, and it is sure to become a standard source for everyone writing about 1906, a great historic event that has previously generated little but untrustworthy and dilatory histories."--Rebecca Solnit, author of River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
"The masterful Philip Fradkin once again plays Sherlock Holmes to Western environmental history. None of the standard histories of the 1906 disaster are likely to survive the exemplary jolt of his remarkable new research."--Mike Davis, author of Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
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- Title The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906: How San Francisco Nearly Destroyed Itself
- Author Philip L. Fradkin
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 448
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 2006-04-03
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780520248205 / 0520248201
- Weight 1.61 lbs (0.73 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6.08 x 1.28 in (22.86 x 15.44 x 3.25 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1900-1919
- Cultural Region: Northern California
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Cultural Region: West Coast
- Geographic Orientation: California
- Locality: San Francisco, California
- Library of Congress subjects San Francisco (Calif.) - History - 20th, Earthquakes - California - San Francisco -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004018506
- Dewey Decimal Code 979.461
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