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Paperback City on Fire: Technology, Social Change, and the Hazards of Progress in Mexico City, 1860-1910 Book
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ISBN: 082296418X

ISBN13: 9780822964186

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

(Part of the History of the Urban Environment Series)

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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...

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