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Author Alexander, Anna Rose, author.

Title City on fire : technology, social change, and the hazards of progress in Mexico City, 1860-1910 / Anna Rose Alexander
Published Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016
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Description 1 online resource
Series History of the urban environment
Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environ
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
Summary "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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-218)
Notes English
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Subject 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)
SUBJECT Mexico City (Mexico) -- Economic conditions
Mexico City (Mexico) -- Social conditions
Subject Mexico -- Mexico City
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016007472
ISBN 9780822981466
0822981467