TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alexander,Anna Rose
TI  - City on fire: technology, social change, and the hazards of progress in Mexico City, 1860-1910 
T2  - History of the urban environment
SN  - 9780822981466
AV  - TH9449.M(Mexico City) 
U1  - 306.0972/53 23
PY  - 2016///
KW  - Social medicine
KW  - Mexico
KW  - Mexico City
KW  - History
KW  - Science
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Technology
KW  - Urban ecology (Sociology)
KW  - Social change
KW  - City and town life
KW  - Fire prevention
KW  - Fires
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Latin America
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - Economic history
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Mexico City (Mexico)
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Electronic book
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-218); 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
N2  - "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"--; "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"--
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