Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1: Cities as Fire Regimes 1 Jan van der Heyden and the Origins of Modern Firefighting: Art and Technology in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam Susan Donahue Kuretsky 2 Governance, Arson, and Firefighting in Edo, 1600–1868 Jordan Sand and Steven Wills 3 Taming Fire in Valparaíso, Chile, 1840s–1870s Samuel J. Martland 4 The Burning of a Modern City? Istanbul as Perceived by the Agents of the Sun Fire Office, 1865–1870 Cornel Zwierlein 5 Imperial Russia’s Urban Fire Regimes, 1700–1905 Cathy A. Frierson 6 Fighting Fires (or Not) in Porfirian Mexico Amy S. Greenberg Part 2: Fire as Risk and as a Catalyst of Change 7 The Great Fire of Lisbon, 1755 Mark Molesky 8 A Tale of Two Cities: The Pyro-Seismic Morphology of Nineteenth-Century Manila Greg Bankoff 9 Fire and Urban Morphogenesis: Patterns of Destruction and Reconstruction in Nineteenth-Century Montreal Jason Gilliland 10 The Great Fire of Hamburg, 1842: From Catastrophe to Reform Dirk Schubert 11 Did the Fire Insurance Industry Help Reduce Urban Fires in the United States in the Nineteenth Century? Sara E. Wermiel 12 Inflaming the Fears of Theatergoers: How Fires Shaped the Public Sphere in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1880–1910 Kristen McCleary 13 Points of Origin: The Social Impact of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire Andrea Rees Davies Part 3: The Politics of Fire 14 The Politics of Singapore’s Fire Narrative Nancy H. Kwak 15 The Beirut Central District on Fire: Firefighting in a Divided City with Shifting Front Lines, 1975–1976 Sofia Toufic Shwayri 16 Who Burned Cleveland, Ohio? The Forgotten Fires of the 1970s Daniel Kerr 17 “There Is More to This Fire Than Meets the Eye”: Anatomy of Fire Outbreaks in Lagos, Nigeria, 1980–2008 Ayodeji Olukoju 18 Fires, Urban Environments, and Politics in Contemporary Jakarta Jérôme Tadié Afterword: Fire on the Fringe Stephen J. Pyne Contributors Index
