TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tebeau,Mark
TI  - Eating smoke: fire in urban America, 1800-1950 
SN  - 9781421412504
AV  - TH9503 .T43 2003eb
U1  - 363.37/0973/091732 22
PY  - 2003///]
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Fire extinction
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Incendies
KW  - Extinction
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Histoire
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Infrastructure
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - Brandbekämpfung
KW  - gnd
KW  - Stadt
KW  - Brandweer
KW  - gtt
KW  - Brandverzekering
KW  - Steden
KW  - USA
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The problem of fire -- I: Smoke -- Workshops of democracy: the invention of volunteer firefighting -- The business of safety: the American fire insurance industry, 800-1850 -- II: Fire -- Statistics, maps, and morals: making fire risk objective, 1850-1875 -- Muscle and steam: establishing municipal fire departments, 1850-1875 -- III: Water -- Disciplining the city: everyday practice and mapping risk, 1875-1900 -- Becoming heroes: a new standard for urban fire safety, 1875-1900 -- IV: Paper -- Consuming safety: fire prevention and fire risk in the twentieth century -- Eating smoke: rational heroes in the twentieth century -- Fighting fire in postwar America; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - "Shows how the changing practices of firefighters, the strategies of insurers, and the rise of urban building codes eventually combined to conquer the popular fear of fire while also shaping the built landscape of American cities."--Cover
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