City on fire : technology, social change, and the hazards of progress in Mexico City, 1860-1910

City on fire : technology, social change, and the hazards of progress in Mexico City, 1860-1910 / Anna Rose Alexander.

"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...

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Main Author: Alexander, Anna Rose (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016.
©2016
Series:Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environ.
Subjects:
Social medicine > Mexico > Mexico City > History.
Science > Social aspects > Mexico > Mexico City > History.
Technology > Social aspects > Mexico > Mexico City > History.
Urban ecology (Sociology) > Mexico > Mexico City > History.
Social change > Mexico > Mexico City > History.
City and town life > Mexico > Mexico City > History.
Fire prevention > Mexico > Mexico City > History.
Fires > Social aspects > Mexico > Mexico City > History.
HISTORY > Latin America > Mexico.
HISTORY > General.
City and town life
Economic history
Fire prevention
Fires > Social aspects
Science > Social aspects
Social change
Social conditions
Social medicine
Technology > Social aspects
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Mexico City (Mexico) > Economic conditions.
Mexico City (Mexico) > Social conditions.
Mexico > Mexico City
History
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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