City on Fire : Technology, Social Change, and the Hazards of Progress in Mexico City, 1860-1910.

By:

Alexander, Anna Rose

Material type: Text

TextSeries: History of the Urban Environment SeriesPublisher: PIttsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (237 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780822981466

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: City on FireDDC classification:

306.0972/53

LOC classification:

HN120

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Contents:

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Modernity and Its Accidents -- Chapter One. Fighting Fire, Fighting Fear -- Chapter Two. Science of Regulation -- Chapter Three. Controlling the Flames-The Fire Brigade -- Chapter Four. Engineering Safety -- Chapter Five. Inventing Protection -- Chapter Six. Insuring Progress -- Chapter Seven. Healing the Hazardous City -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

Summary: City on Fire is a chronicle of progress and danger, that integrates urban environmental history with histories of technology, science, and medicine to reveal how Mexico City changed in response to the growing threat of fire in the urban center.

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City on Fire is a chronicle of progress and danger, that integrates urban environmental history with histories of technology, science, and medicine to reveal how Mexico City changed in response to the growing threat of fire in the urban center.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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