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

by Anna Rose Alexander

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082296418X
• ISBN13: 9780822964186
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"