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

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.

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Year of publication:	2021
Authors:	Zwierlein, Cornel
Publisher:	Boston : BRILL
Subject:	Geschichte \| History \| Europa \| Europe \| Feuer \| Fire \| Brandschutz \| Fire protection \| Feuerversicherung \| Fire insurance

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Extent:	1 online resource (563 pages)
Series:	Library of Economic History Ser.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
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ISBN:	978-90-04-43122-5 ; 978-90-04-42412-8
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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