Title & Author:

Flammable cities : urban conflagration and the making of the modern world / edited by Greg Bankoff, Uwe Lübken, and Jordan Sand.

Publication:

Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press, ©2012.

Description:

vii, 409 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Jan van der Heyden and the origins of modern firefighting: art and technology in seventeenth-century Amsterdam / Susan Donahue Kuretsky -- Governance, arson, and firefighting in Edo, 1600-1868 / Jordan Sand and Steven Wills -- Taming fire in Valparaíso, Chile, 1840s-1870s / Samuel J. Martland -- The burning of a modern city? Istanbul as perceived by the agents of the Sun Fire Office, 1865-1870 / Cornel Zwierlein -- Imperial Russia's urban fire regimes, 1700-1905 / Cathy A. Frierson -- Fighting fires (or not) in Porfirian Mexico / Amy S. Greenberg -- The great fire of Lisbon, 1755 / Mark Molesky -- A tale of two cities: the pyro-seismic morphology of nineteenth-century Manila / Greg Bankoff -- Fire and urban morphogenesis: patterns of destruction and reconstruction in nineteenth-century Montreal / Jason Gilliland -- The great fire of Hamburg, 1842: from catastrophe to reform / Dirk Schubert -- Did the fire insurance industry help reduce urban fires in the United States in the nineteenth century? / Sara E. Wermiel -- Inflaming the fears of theatergoers: how fires shaped the public sphere in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1880-1910 / Kristen McCleary -- Points of origin: the social impact of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire / Andrea Rees Davies -- The politics of Singapore's fire narrative / Nancy H. Kwak -- The Beirut central district on fire: firefighting in a divided city with shifting front lines, 1975-1976 / Sofia Toufic Shwayri -- Who burned Cleveland, Ohio? The forgotten fires of the 1970s / Daniel Kerr -- "There is more to this fire than meets the eye": anatomy of fire outbreaks in Lagos, Nigeria, 1980-2008 / Ayodeji Olukoju -- Fires, urban environments, and politics in contemporary Jakarta / Jérôme Tadié -- Afterword: Fire on the fringe / Stephen J. Pyne.

Summary:

In most cities today, fire has been reduced to a sporadic and isolated threat. But throughout history the constant risk of fire has left a deep and lasting imprint on almost every dimension of urban society. This volume shows how fire has shaped cities throughout the modern world, from Europe to the imperial colonies, major trade entrepôts, and non-European capitals, right up to such present-day megacities as Lagos and Jakarta.

Resources:
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

9780299283841 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0299283844 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780299283834 (e-book)
0299283836 (e-book)

Subject:

Fires.
Fires History.
Incendies.
Incendies Histoire.
Society.
Stadt
Brandkatastrophe
Feuer

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Bankoff, Greg.
Lübken, Uwe.
Sand, Jordan, 1960-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 282969
Call No.: BIB 220917
Status: Available