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