Born in Flames : The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
132413433X
ISBN-13
9781324134336
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Imprint
WW Norton & Co
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 2nd, 2026
Print length
368 Pages
Weight
293 grams
Dimensions
21.10 x 14.00 x 2.30 cms
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A revelatory account of the wave of arson-for-profit that hit American cities in the 1970s, and of the tenants who put out the fires and reclaimed their neighbourhoods
“Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning!” Supposedly uttered by announcers during the 1977 World Series as flames rose above Yankee Stadium, the phrase encapsulated a chaotic era in US history. Through the 1970s, a wave of arson coursed through American cities, levelling poor communities of colour. However, Bench Ansfield demonstrates in Born in Flames, the majority of the fires weren’t set by residents—as is usually assumed—but by landlords seeking insurance payouts. In an expansive narrative stretching from the Bronx to Britain to Brazil, Ansfield tracks the flows of money that signalled the arrival of our financialised age. From the ashes arose the modern US tenant movement and the fight for housing justice amid a new era of housing insecurity.
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