City on fire : technology, social change, and the hazards of progress in Mexico City, 1860-1910 /
"By the mid-nineteenth century, efforts to modernize and industrialize Mexico City had the unintended consequence of exponentially increasing the risk of fire while also breeding a culture of fear. Through an array of archival sources, Anna Rose Alexander argues that fire became a catalyst for...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
2016.
©2016 |
Colección: | Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environ.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.