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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Tebeau, Mark. Eating smoke. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2003 (OCoLC)607055549 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Mark Tebeau |
| ISBN: | 0801867916 9780801867910 |
| OCLC Number: | 50803699 |
| Description: | xi, 425 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Responsibility: | Mark Tebeau. |
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For the true story of the heroic firefighter's role in urban America, turn to Tebeau's investigative account. University of Chicago Magazine 2004 Tebeau develops an interwoven story of gender, class, culture, and technology: contrasting the heroics of working-class firefighters with the rational order of middle-class fire underwriters... An engaging narrative and a fascinating story make this book a rare pleasure-both an academic monograph and a good read. -- Dalit Baranoff EH.Net 2004 Emblazed against a historic backdrop of 150 years, Eating Smoke chronicles the parallel development of US firefighting forces and the fire insurance industry. Choice 2004 In his ambitious and detailed new book, Eating Smoke, Tebeau sets out to explain the role of two largely undocumented actors-firemen and insurance men-in analyzing, managing, and attacking urban fire... Tebeau's study vigorously opens the way for scholars looking to make sense of the city in the midst of an era of uncertainty and risk. -- Scott Gabriel Knowles Enterprise and Society 2004 A rich and highly informative work that deftly uses the 'problem' of urban fire to cast light on a wide array of turn-of-the-century transformations. American Historical Review 2005 Read more...
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