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City on Fire - Technology, Social Change, and the Hazards of Progress in Mexico City, 1860-1910 (Paperback)
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City on Fire - Technology, Social Change, and the Hazards of Progress in Mexico City, 1860-1910 (Paperback)
Series: History of the Urban Environment
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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.
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