City on Fire : Technology, Social Change, and the Hazards of Progress in Mexico City, 1860-1910

Name: City on Fire
Brand: University of Pittsburgh Press
SKU: 9780822964186
Price: 8100 KES
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ISBN: 9780822964186

by Anna Rose

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series History of the Urban Environment

ISBN-10 082296418X

ISBN-13 9780822964186

Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press

Imprint University of Pittsburgh Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date May 31st, 2016

Print length 216 Pages

Product Classification: History of the Americas Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 Social & cultural history History History of the Americas Social and cultural history Fire protection & safety Fire protection and safety

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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.

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.

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