Prometheus Tamed: Fire, Security, and Modernities, 1400 to 1900 - Couverture rigide

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Zwierlein, Cornel

 
9789004424128: Prometheus Tamed: Fire, Security, and Modernities, 1400 to 1900
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ISBN 10 : 9004424121 ISBN 13 : 9789004424128
Editeur : Brill, 2021

Synopsis

Large city fires were a huge threat in premodern Central European every-day life; only quite late, institutional forms of fire insurances emerged as a post-disaster instrument of damage recovery. During the nineteenth century, insurance agencies spread through the World forming a plurality of modernities, safe or unsafe.

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À propos de l?auteur

Cornel Zwierlein, Ph.D. (2003) University of Munich (LMU) and the CESR Tours is currently on a Heisenberg-Stelle at the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, FU Berlin. Before he was w1-Prof. 2008-2017. He holds the Habilitation (Privatdozent) at RUB Bochum (2011/3), was Fellow at the History Department, Harvard University 2013-2015, Associate there 2016, 2018, CRASSH Cambridge 2014, Max-Weber-Kolleg Erfurt 2017/18. His monographs include: Discorso and Lex Dei (French Wars of Religion, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht: 2006), The Political Thought of the French League and Rome, 1585-1589 (Droz: 2016) and Imperial Unknowns. The French and the British in the Mediterranean, 1650-1750 (Cambridge UP, 2016/8).

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Éditeur
Brill
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9004424121
ISBN 13 
9789004424128
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
564
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