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Conflagrations In America Since 1900
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Download or read book Conflagrations in America Since 1900 written by and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Conflagrations in America Since 1900 written by and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Conflagrations in America Since 1914 by : National Fire Protection Association
Download or read book Conflagrations in America Since 1914 written by National Fire Protection Association and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Limits of Power by : Christine Meisner Rosen
Download or read book The Limits of Power written by Christine Meisner Rosen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-12-04 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the rebuildings of Chicago, Boston, and Baltimore following great fires.
Author :Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station (Berkeley, Calif.) Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :550 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (422 download)
Book Synopsis U.S. Forest Service Research Paper PSW. by : Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station (Berkeley, Calif.)
Download or read book U.S. Forest Service Research Paper PSW. written by Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station (Berkeley, Calif.) and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A City in the Making by : Frederick H. Armstrong
Download or read book A City in the Making written by Frederick H. Armstrong and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1988-12-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A City in the Making examines certain of the events that took place in the nineteenth century Toronto, paying particular attention to those who carved a thriving metropolis out of the frontier post that was the town of York.
Book Synopsis History of the Great Conflagration; or Boston and its Destruction by : Anonymous
Download or read book History of the Great Conflagration; or Boston and its Destruction written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-03-08 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Download or read book Eating Smoke written by Mark Tebeau and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the period of America's swiftest industrialization and urban growth, fire struck fear in the hearts of city dwellers as did no other calamity. Before the Civil War, sweeping blazes destroyed more than $200 million in property in the nation's largest cities. Between 1871 and 1906, conflagrations left Chicago, Boston, Baltimore, and San Francisco in ruins. Into the twentieth century, this dynamic hazard intensified as cities grew taller and more populous, confounding those who battled it. Firefighters' death-defying feats captured the popular imagination but too often failed to provide more than symbolic protection. Hundreds of fire insurance companies went bankrupt because they could not adequately deal with the effects of even smaller blazes. Firefighters and fire insurers created a physical and cultural infrastructure whose legacy—in the form of heroic firefighters, insurance policies, building standards, and fire hydrants—lives on in the urban built environment. In Eating Smoke, Mark Tebeau shows how the changing practices of firefighters and fire insurers shaped the built landscape of American cities, the growth of municipal institutions, and the experience of urban life. Drawing on a wealth of fire department and insurance company archives, he contrasts the invention of a heroic culture of firefighters with the rational organizational strategies by fire underwriters. Recognizing the complexity of shifting urban environments and constantly experimenting with tools and tactics, firefighters fought fire ever more aggressively—"eating smoke" when they ventured deep into burning buildings or when they scaled ladders to perform harrowing rescues. In sharp contrast to the manly valor of firefighters, insurers argued that the risk was quantifiable, measurable, and predictable. Underwriters managed hazard with statistics, maps, and trade associations, and they eventually agitated for building codes and other reforms, which cities throughout the nation implemented in the twentieth century. Although they remained icons of heroism, firefighters' cultural and institutional authority slowly diminished. Americans had begun to imagine fire risk as an economic abstraction. By comparing the simple skills employed by firefighters—climbing ladders and manipulating hoses—with the mundane technologies—maps and accounting charts—of insurers, the author demonstrates that the daily routines of both groups were instrumental in making intense urban and industrial expansion a less precarious endeavor.
Book Synopsis Catalog of Books and Reports in the Bureau of Mines Technical Library, Pittsburgh, Pa by : United States. Bureau of Mines. Technical Library, Pittsburgh
Download or read book Catalog of Books and Reports in the Bureau of Mines Technical Library, Pittsburgh, Pa written by United States. Bureau of Mines. Technical Library, Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Seven Fires written by Peter Hoffer and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2006-04-24 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This resonant and fascinating book by a renowned historian examines how seven fires shaped the larger course of American history. The Boston fire of 1760 set the stage for the American Revolution. The Pittsburgh fire of 1845 opened the way to larger scale industrial plants. Out of the ashes of the Chicago fire of 1871 came the modern skyscraper, the Haymarket Riots, and the Pullman Strike. The Baltimore fire of 1904 showed how a city's downtown, utterly destroyed, could re-invent itself after a catastrophe. The Detroit fire of 1967 forced politicians to concede what people of Detroit already knew—that racism and racially-based deprivation were not changed by the civil rights movement. The Oakland Hills tragedy demolished a landscape of private privilege and imperiled the dream of leisure living in natural settings. Apart from their domestic and global political implications, the fires of 9/11 have prodded a complacent nation to admit to itself that twentyfirst century emergency services, and the urban lifestyles they protected, have to be thoroughly rethought. Told through gripping narrative chronicles of the catastrophic events, memorable portraits of historic figures, and incisive, thought-provoking analysis, Seven Fires reveals a nation and a people at its best and worst and illustrates how disasters teach lessons that, if we grasp them, can help us better our society.
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :1558 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Hearings by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 1558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Eastern Underwriter written by and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mass Fires and Fire Behavior by : Clive M. Countryman
Download or read book Mass Fires and Fire Behavior written by Clive M. Countryman and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hearings by : United States. Congress. House
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 2072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Unplanned Suburbs by : Richard Harris
Download or read book Unplanned Suburbs written by Richard Harris and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1999-10-07 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is widely believed that only the growth of mass suburbs after World War II brought suburban living within reach of blue-collar workers, immigrants, and racial minorities. But in this original and intensive study of Toronto, Richard Harris shows that even prewar suburbs were socially and ethnically diverse, with a significant number of lower-income North American families making their homes on the urban fringe. In the United States and Canada, lack of planning set the stage for a uniquely North American tragedy. Unplanned Suburbs serves as a reminder of the dangers of unchecked suburban growth.
Book Synopsis Quarterly of the National Fire Protection Association by : National Fire Protection Association
Download or read book Quarterly of the National Fire Protection Association written by National Fire Protection Association and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Insect-caused Deterioration of Windthrown Timber in Northern California, 1963-1964 by : Boyd E. Wickman
Download or read book Insect-caused Deterioration of Windthrown Timber in Northern California, 1963-1964 written by Boyd E. Wickman and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: