TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tebeau,Mark
TI  - Eating smoke: fire in urban America, 1800-1950 
SN  - 9781421412504
AV  - TH9503 .E285 2003
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Fire extinction
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
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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