Flammable cities : urban conflagration and the making of the modern world / edited by Greg Bankoff, Uwe Lübken, Jordan Sand.
In most cities today, fire has been reduced to a sporadic and isolated threat. But throughout history the constant risk of fire has left a deep and lasting imprint on almost every dimension of urban society. This volume, the first truly global study of urban conflagration, shows how fire has shaped...
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