03285nam 2200613 450 991046643350332120200520144314.00-8229-8146-7(CKB)3840000000036869(EBL)4669554(SSID)ssj0001681645(PQKBManifestationID)16507149(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001681645(PQKBWorkID)15036650(PQKB)10712475(MiAaPQ)EBC4669554(OCoLC)951807414(MdBmJHUP)muse50981(Au-PeEL)EBL4669554(CaPaEBR)ebr11253876(CaONFJC)MIL952559(EXLCZ)99384000000003686920160919h20162016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCity on fire technology, social change, and the hazards of progress in Mexico City, 1860-1910 /Anna Rose AlexanderPittsburgh, Pennsylvania :University of Pittsburgh Press,2016.©20161 online resource (237 p.)History of the urban environmentDescription based upon print version of record.0-8229-6418-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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"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 social change, as residents mobilized to confront the problem. Advances in engineering and medicine soon fostered the rise of distinct fields of fire-related expertise while conversely, the rise of fire-profiteering industries allowed entrepreneurs to capitalize on crisis. City on Fire demonstrates that both public and private engagements with fire risk highlight the inequalities that characterized Mexican society at the turn of the twentieth century"--Provided by publisher."City on Fire is a chronicle of progress and danger, that integrates urban environmental history with histories of technology, science, and medicine to reveal how Mexico City changed in response to the growing threat of fire in the urban center"--Provided by publisher.Pittsburgh Hist Urban EnvironSocial medicineMexicoSocial medicineMexicoMexico CityHistoryElectronic books.Social medicineSocial medicineHistory.362.10972Alexander Anna Rose917225MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910466433503321City on fire2056283UNINA