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Author Alexander, Anna Rose.

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

Publication Info. Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series History of the urban environment
History of the urban environment.
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.
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-218).
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Subject Social medicine -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- History.
Social medicine.
Mexico -- Mexico City.
History.
Science -- Social aspects -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- History.
Science -- Social aspects.
Technology -- Social aspects -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- History.
Technology -- Social aspects.
Urban ecology (Sociology) -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- History.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Social change -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- History.
Social change.
City and town life -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- History.
City and town life.
Fire prevention -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- History.
Fire prevention.
Fires -- Social aspects -- Mexico -- Mexico City -- History.
Fires -- Social aspects.
Fires.
Mexico City (Mexico) -- Economic conditions.
Mexico City (Mexico) -- Social conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Alexander, Anna Rose. City on fire. Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016 9780822964186 082296418X (DLC) 2016007472 (OCoLC)930683626
ISBN 9780822981466 (electronic book)
0822981467 (electronic book)
9780822964186 (paperback ; acid-free paper)
082296418X