About this title: 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 Bolstered by previously unpublished eyewitness accounts and photographs, this definitive history of a fascinating ...
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Edition: 1st edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 2005-04-18
ISBN-13:9780520230606ISBN:0520230604
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Edition: 1st edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 2005-04-18
ISBN-13:9780520230606ISBN:0520230604
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 4-18-05
ISBN-13:9780520230606ISBN:0520230604
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 4-3-06
ISBN-13:9780520248205ISBN:0520248201
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780520248205ISBN:0520248201
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Brown Boards
Publisher: Univ of California Pr, Berkeley and Los Angeles
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780520230606ISBN:0520230604
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. Hardcover. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. A very crisp and clean used first edition, almost new and unread condition, gift quality! Brown boards quarterbound by black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Dj is nicely preserved in a brand new protective mylar plastic cover! Mapped endpapers. 418 very clean unmarked and uncreased historical pages of text and 40 wonderful pages of historic black and white photographs and illustrations! "The prolonged terror that would follow the ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley, CA
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780520230606ISBN:0520230604
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 2005 Edition. Printing line begins with "2. " FINE in FINE dust jacket. A fresh, clean, totally unmarked and tightly bound hardcover copy book and dust jacket unworn. In "as new" condition, a very giftable copy! 6-1/4 x 9-1/4"; xvii + 418 pages. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Date Published: 2006-04-01
ISBN-13:9780520248205ISBN:0520248201
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780520248205ISBN:0520248201
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"I'm giving up on this book, at least for the moment. It's interesting, but a little dry; you need to be able to give it a lot of time all at once, or else you lose your train of thought. I can only read in spurts right now so I've been halfway through it for months."
"This is a nice, interesting read with a minimum of grammatical errors. There's a little bit of editorializing from the author, who seems to be a socialist at heart ... or at the very least an apologist for the voguish academic field known as "Social History." Nevertheless, once the reader bypasses apologies for the author's inability to tell the stories of blacks, Chinese, working people, etc., there's quite a story to be told about what the rich, well-educated white men actually did."
"Of the many books that were released around the centennial of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, this was one of the best. It didn't just re-hash the same old stories, but looked at the broader meaning and significance of this tragedy. The other worthwhile book from the centennial is Simon Winchester's "A Crack in the Edge of the World.""
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