Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Petroleum and nineteenth-century risk culture
  • Fire hazards and petroleum risks in Mobile, Alabama, 1894-1910
  • Risk management in the Bayou City : fuel oil in Houston, 1901-1914
  • Competition and conflagration : exploiting and regulating fuel oil in New Orleans, 1943
  • Hazards, risks, and vulnerability : Galveston, Texas, 1901-1937
  • Conclusion
  • Epilogue : risk management of flammable liquids in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.