City on fire : technology, social change, and the hazards of progress in Mexico City, 1860-1910 /
"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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
2016.
©2016 |
| Series: | Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environ.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT CONNECT |
