Eating Smoke: Fire in Urban America, 1800-1950 by Mark Tebeau

Eating Smoke: Fire in Urban America, 1800-1950

Mark Tebeau

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nonfiction business history science technology informative medium-paced
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During the period of America's swiftest industrialization and urban growth, fire struck fear in the hearts of city dwellers as did no other calamity. Before the Civil War, sweeping blazes destroyed more than $200 million in property in the nation'...

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