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Flammable Cities: Urban Conflagration and the Making of the Modern World
University of Wisconsin Press, 2012 Paper: 978-0-299-28384-1 | eISBN: 978-0-299-28383-4
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In most cities today, fire has been reduced to a sporadic and isolated threat. But throughout history the constant risk of fire has left a deep and lasting imprint on almost every dimension of urban society. This volume, the first truly global study of urban conflagration, shows how fire has shaped cities throughout the modern world, from Europe to the imperial colonies, major trade entrepôts, and non-European capitals, right up to such present-day megacities as Lagos and Jakarta. Urban fire may hinder commerce or even spur it; it may break down or reinforce barriers of race, class, and ethnicity; it may serve as a pretext for state violence or provide an opportunity for displays of state benevolence. As this volume demonstrates, the many and varied attempts to master, marginalize, or manipulate fire can turn a natural and human hazard into a highly useful social and political tool. AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Greg Bankoff is professor of history at the University of Hull, UK. Uwe Lübken is “Disaster Migration” project director, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich. Jordan Sand is associate professor of Japanese history and culture at Georgetown University. TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1: Cities as Fire Regimes 1 Jan van der Heyden and the Origins of Modern Firefighting: Art and Technology in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam Susan Donahue Kuretsky 2 Governance, Arson, and Firefighting in Edo, 1600–1868 Jordan Sand and Steven Wills 3 Taming Fire in Valparaíso, Chile, 1840s–1870s Samuel J. Martland 4 The Burning of a Modern City? Istanbul as Perceived by the Agents of the Sun Fire Office, 1865–1870 Cornel Zwierlein 5 Imperial Russia’s Urban Fire Regimes, 1700–1905 Cathy A. Frierson 6 Fighting Fires (or Not) in Porfirian Mexico Amy S. Greenberg Part 2: Fire as Risk and as a Catalyst of Change 7 The Great Fire of Lisbon, 1755 Mark Molesky 8 A Tale of Two Cities: The Pyro-Seismic Morphology of Nineteenth-Century Manila Greg Bankoff 9 Fire and Urban Morphogenesis: Patterns of Destruction and Reconstruction in Nineteenth-Century Montreal Jason Gilliland 10 The Great Fire of Hamburg, 1842: From Catastrophe to Reform Dirk Schubert 11 Did the Fire Insurance Industry Help Reduce Urban Fires in the United States in the Nineteenth Century? Sara E. Wermiel 12 Inflaming the Fears of Theatergoers: How Fires Shaped the Public Sphere in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1880–1910 Kristen McCleary 13 Points of Origin: The Social Impact of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Andrea Rees Davies Part 3: The Politics of Fire 14 The Politics of Singapore’s Fire Narrative Nancy H. Kwak 15 The Beirut Central District on Fire: Firefighting in a Divided City with Shifting Front Lines, 1975–1976 Sofia Toufic Shwayri 16 Who Burned Cleveland, Ohio? The Forgotten Fires of the 1970s Daniel Kerr 17 “There Is More to This Fire Than Meets the Eye”: Anatomy of Fire Outbreaks in Lagos, Nigeria, 1980–2008 Ayodeji Olukoju 18 Fires, Urban Environments, and Politics in Contemporary Jakarta Jérôme Tadié Afterword: Fire on the Fringe Stephen J. Pyne Contributors Index
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