Eating smoke : fire in urban America, 1800-1950 / Mark Tebeau.

"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

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Main Author: Tebeau, Mark
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2003]
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