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

Alexander, Anna Rose

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 082296418X ISBN 13 : 9780822964186

Editeur : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Anna Rose Alexander is assistant professor of history at California State University, East Bay.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 082296418X
• ISBN 13: 9780822964186
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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