Prometheus Tamed: Fire, Security, and Modernities, 1400 to 1900

By Cornel Zwierlein

Large city fires were a huge threat in premodern Central European every-day life; only quite late, institutional forms of fire insurances emerged as a post-disaster instrument of damage recovery. During the nineteenth century, insurance agencies spread through the World forming a plurality of modernities, safe or unsafe.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004424121
• ISBN13: 9789004424128
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 548 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"