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Author : Philip L. Fradkin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0520230604
"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."
Author : Brinkley Howard
Publisher : BookCaps Study Guides
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781621073147
Over 3,000 dead. Buildings shaken to the ground. A city, surrounded by water, burnt to the ground. The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was one of the most destructive natural disasters the world has ever known. Find out what happened and how the city was repaired in this fascinating book.
Author : John Castillo Kennedy
Publisher : New York : William Morrow
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Earthquakes
ISBN : UVA:X000300972
Author : Matthew J. Davenport
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250279286
Matthew J. Davenport’s The Longest Minute is the spellbinding true story of the 1906 earthquake and fire in San Francisco, and how a great earthquake sparked a devastating and preventable firestorm. At 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1906, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck San Francisco, catching most of the city asleep. For approximately one minute, shockwaves buckled streets, shattered water mains, collapsed buildings, crushed hundreds of residents to death and trapped many alive. Fires ignited and blazed through dry wooden ruins and grew into a firestorm. For the next three days, flames devoured collapsed ruins, killed trapped survivors, and nearly destroyed what was then the largest city in the American West. Meticulously researched and gracefully written, The Longest Minute is both a harrowing chronicle of devastation and the portrait of a city’s resilience in the burning aftermath of greed and folly. Drawing on the letters and diaries and unpublished memoirs of survivors and previously unearthed archival records, Matthew Davenport combines history and science to tell the dramatic true story of one of the greatest disasters in American history.
Author : Louise Chipley Slavicek
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Earthquakes
ISBN : 9781438118161
Examines the devastating earthquake that struck San Francisco in 1906 and the resulting fires that destroyed a large section of the city.
Author : Wilbur Gleason Zeigler
Publisher : The Paragon Agency
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03
Category : Earthquakes
ISBN : 9781891030635
Author : Dan Kurzman
Publisher : Harper Entertainment
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0061051748
Investigates the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, describing the horrible natural disaster and the subsequent fire that raged through the rubble, killing ten thousand people.
Author : Eric Saul,Don DeNevi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039232157
Photographs show conditions in the California city before, during, and after the great disaster of 1906.
Author : Grove Karl Gilbert,Richard Lewis Humphrey,John Stephen Sewell,Frank Soulé
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Building materials
ISBN : HARVARD:32044010538072
Author : Mark Klett,Michael Lundgren,Philip L. Fradkin,Rebecca Solnit,Karin Breuer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520245563
A collection of essays accompany this collection of photos of San Francisco following the 1906 earthquake and fire, juxtaposed with photos of the city today.
Author : Richard Hansen,Gladys Hansen
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439642108
One of the greatest disasters of the twentieth century, in words and photos. The Great Earthquake and Fire of 1906 was an unparalleled catastrophe in the history of San Francisco. More than 4.5 square miles of the city burned and crumbled into a windswept desert of desolation. This book is filled with remarkable images, from before the earthquake through the blaze and into the rebuilding. With stories from survivors, and extensive photographs of sites from the waterfront in the east to Golden Gate Park in the west, the marina in the north to the Mission District in the south, readers can gain a vivid sense of this major historical event and how it affected one of America’s greatest cities.
Author : Claire B. Rubin
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781466517530
Following in the footsteps of its popular predecessor, the second edition of Emergency Management: The American Experience 1900–2010 provides the background needed to understand the key political and policy underpinnings of emergency management, exploring how major "focusing events" have shaped the development of emergency management. It builds on the original theoretical framework and chronological approach, but improves on the first edition by adding fresh information on older events such as Hurricane Katrina as well as a new chapter covering the BP oil spill in 2010 and the unprecedented characteristics of the disaster response to it. The final chapter offers an insightful discussion of the public administration concepts that constitute the larger context for consideration of emergency management in the United States for more than a century. Some praise for the new edition of this award-winning book: The first edition of this book filled a serious gap in the literature by providing historical context for present-day emergency management. This edition goes further to flesh out that context, detailing the political and practical underpinnings of emergency management organization and practice. —Professor William L. Waugh Jr., Department of Public Administration & Urban Studies, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University ... a must-read for both undergraduate and graduate students who want to learn from our past and join a growing professional field committed to enhancing community resilience and sustainability. — John C. Pine, director, Research Institute for Energy, Environment and Economics, Appalachian State University
Author : Deborah Hopkinson
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780440421290
“I believe I can just see you on the streets of that bright city.” Gran’s gone now, but her words live on with Nicholas Dray, almost twelve, as he makes his way from the hot cotton fields to that Queen of Cities: San Francisco. Nick’s on his own for the first time, with nowhere to turn. Then he meets jaunty, talkative Pat Patterson, owner of the most beautiful store–and the friendliest golden dog–in all the city. And for the first time in months, Nick feels safe. Safe in San Francisco. But the year is 1906, the month is April, and early one morning the walls begin to shake. The floor begins to buckle. And the earth opens up. A devastating earthquake and then raging firestorms ravage the city, and Nick is right in the middle of it all. But for a young boy who’s got few ties and nothing to lose, what’s the right choice: escape to safety or stay–at deadly risk–to help others? From acclaimed author Deborah Hopkinson comes a suspenseful and carefully researched novel of the Great 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire and of one boy’s heroic fight to survive it.
Author : Charles Morris
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486802756
Fifty-nine original full-page illustrations enhance these firsthand narratives, which trace the chain of events from the earthquake and fire to the plight of the homeless and the colossal task of rebuilding.
Author : Gordon Thomas,Max Morgan-Witts
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781497658837
A “gripping, can’t-put-it-down” chronicle, drawing on eyewitness reports and historical documents, by the New York Times–bestselling authors of Enola Gay (Los Angeles Herald Examiner). It happened at 5:13 a.m. on April 18, 1906, in San Francisco. To this day, it remains one of the worst natural disasters in American history—and this definitive book brings the full story to vivid life. Using previously unpublished documents from insurance companies, the military, and the Red Cross, as well as the stories of those who were there, The San Francisco Earthquake exposes villains and heroes; shows how the political powers tried to conceal the amount of damage caused by the earthquake; reveals how efforts to contain the fire actually spread it instead; and tells how the military executed people without trial. It also features personal stories of people who experienced it firsthand, including the great Italian tenor Enrico Caruso, the banker Amadeo Giannini, the writer-adventurer Jack London, the temperamental star John Barrymore, and the thousands of less famous in their struggle for survival. From the authors of The Day the Bubble Burst, The San Francisco Earthquake is an important look at how the city has handled catastrophe in the past—and how it may handle it in the future.