Flammable Cities: Urban Conflagration and the Making of the Modern World

by Stephen J. Pyne, Jordan Sand, Uwe Lübken

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 entrep?ts, and non-European capitals, right up to such present-day...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299283844
• ISBN13: 9780299283841
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"