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• Title:City on fire : technology, social change, and the hazards of progress in Mexico City, 1860-1910 / Anna Rose Alexander.
  
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• Author/Creator:Alexander, Anna Rose, author.
  
• Published/Created:Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2016]
  ©2016
  

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  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: HN120.M45 A44 2016
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Links:Donor bookplate
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Fires--Social aspects--Mexico--Mexico City--History.
  Fire prevention--Mexico--Mexico City--History.
  Social change--Mexico--Mexico City--History.
  Urban ecology (Sociology)--Mexico--Mexico City--History.
  Technology--Social aspects--Mexico--Mexico City--History.
  Science--Social aspects--Mexico--Mexico City--History.
  Social medicine--Mexico--Mexico City--History.
  Mexico City (Mexico)--Social conditions--19th century.
  Mexico City (Mexico)--Social conditions--20th century.
  Mexico City (Mexico)--Economic conditions.
  
• Description:x, 224 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
  
• Series:History of the urban environment.
  
• Summary:"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.
  "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.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-218) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780822964186 (paperback ; acid-free paper)
  082296418X (paperback ; acid-free paper)
  
• Contents:Chapter 1 : Fighting fire, fighting fear
  Chapter 2 : Science of regulation
  Chapter 3 : Controlling the flames
  The fire brigade
  Chapter 4 : Engineering safety
  Chapter 5 : Inventing protection
  Chapter 6 : Insuring progress
  Chapter 7 : Healing the hazardous city