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Earthquake Exodus, 1906: Berkeley Responds to the San Francisco Refugees.(Book review)

Publication: California History
Publication Date: 22-DEC-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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EARTHQUAKE EXODUS, 1906: BERKELEY RESPONDS TO THE SAN FRANCISCO REFUGEES

By Richard Schwartz (Berkeley: RSB Books, 2006, 148 pp., $24.95 paper)

One of the most important consequences of the 1906 earthquake was the way it redistributed the Bay Area's regional population. Over half of...

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...San Francisco's four hundred thousand people were at least temporarily homeless, and many of them relocated to other Bay Area communities. Although San Francisco eventually rebuilt and attracted new residents, the city never again dominated the region to the extent that it had before 1906. After the...

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