City on Fire: Technology, Social Change, and the Hazards of Progress in Mexico City, 1860-1910 (Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environ)

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By the mid-nineteenth century, efforts to modernize and industrialize Mexico City had the unintended consequence of exponentially increasing the danger of fireside whilst also breeding a culture of fear. Through an array of archival sources, Anna Rose Alexander argues that fireplace become a catalyst for social change, as residents mobilized to confront the issue. Advances in engineering and medicine soon fostered the upward push of distinct fields of fireside-related expertise whilst conversely, the upward push of fireside-profiteering industries allowed entrepreneurs to capitalize on crisis.
 
City on Fire demonstrates that both private and non-private engagements with fire risk highlight the inequalities that characterized Mexican society on the turn of the 20th century.

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