Eating Smoke : Fire in Urban America, 1800-1950 /

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"Shows how the changing practices of firefighters, the strategies of insurers, and the rise of urban building codes eventually combined to conquer the popular fear of fire while also shaping the built landscape of American cities."--Cover

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tebeau, Mark
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2003]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Steden.
Brandverzekering.
Brandweer.
Stadt
Brandbekämpfung
Fire extinction.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
Incendies > Extinction > États-Unis > Histoire.
Fire extinction > United States > History.
USA
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The problem of fire
  • I: Smoke
  • Workshops of democracy: the invention of volunteer firefighting
  • The business of safety: the American fire insurance industry, 800-1850
  • II: Fire
  • Statistics, maps, and morals: making fire risk objective, 1850-1875
  • Muscle and steam: establishing municipal fire departments, 1850-1875
  • III: Water
  • Disciplining the city: everyday practice and mapping risk, 1875-1900
  • Becoming heroes: a new standard for urban fire safety, 1875-1900
  • IV: Paper
  • Consuming safety: fire prevention and fire risk in the twentieth century
  • Eating smoke: rational heroes in the twentieth century
  • Fighting fire in postwar America.

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