ISBN:
9780822981466
,
0822981467
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource
Series Statement:
History of the urban environment
Parallel Title:
Available in another form
DDC:
306.097253
Keywords:
Social medicine History
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Mexico
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Mexico City
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Science Social aspects
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History
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Mexico
;
Mexico City
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Technology Social aspects
;
History
;
Mexico
;
Mexico City
;
Urban ecology (Sociology) History
;
Mexico
;
Mexico City
;
Social change History
;
Mexico
;
Mexico City
;
City and town life History
;
Mexico
;
Mexico City
;
Fire prevention History
;
Mexico
;
Mexico City
;
Fires Social aspects
;
History
;
Mexico
;
Mexico City
;
Science Social aspects
;
History
;
Technology Social aspects
;
History
;
Urban ecology (Sociology) History
;
Social change History
;
City and town life History
;
Fire prevention History
;
Fires Social aspects
;
History
;
Social medicine History
;
Technology Social aspects
;
History
;
Urban ecology (Sociology) History
;
Social change History
;
City and town life History
;
Fire prevention History
;
Fires Social aspects
;
History
;
Science Social aspects
;
History
;
Social medicine History
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HISTORY ; General
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City and town life
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Economic history
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Fire prevention
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Fires ; Social aspects
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Science ; Social aspects
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Social change
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Social conditions
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Social medicine
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Technology ; Social aspects
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Urban ecology (Sociology)
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HISTORY ; Latin America ; Mexico
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History
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Mexico City (Mexico) Economic conditions
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Mexico City (Mexico) Social conditions
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Mexico
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Mexico City
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Mexico City (Mexico) Social conditions
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Mexico City (Mexico) Economic conditions
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Mexico City (Mexico) Social conditions
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Mexico City (Mexico) Economic conditions
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Mexico ; Mexico City
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Electronic book
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Electronic books History
Abstract:
"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"--
Abstract:
"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"--
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-218). - Print version record
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