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Technology, Social Change, and the Hazards of Progress in Mexico City, 1860-1910
出版University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016-09-02
主題History / GeneralHistory / Latin America / Mexico
ISBN08229814679780822981466
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=joERDQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋By the mid-nineteenth century, efforts to modernize and industrialize Mexico City had the unintended consequence of exponentially increasing the risk of fire while also breeding a culture of fear. Through an array of archival sources, Anna Rose Alexander argues that fire became a catalyst for social change, as residents mobilized to confront the problem. Advances in engineering and medicine soon fostered the rise of distinct fields of fire-related expertise while conversely, the rise of fire-profiteering industries allowed entrepreneurs to capitalize on crisis. City on Fire demonstrates that both public and private engagements with fire risk highlight the inequalities that characterized Mexican society at the turn of the twentieth century.