Eating Smoke: Fire in Urban America, 1800-1950 (Paperback)

Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Problem of Fire
Part I: Smoke
1. Workshops of Democracy: The Invention of Volunteer Firefighting
2. The Business of Safety: The American Fire Insurance Industry, 1800?1850
Part II: Fire
3. Statistics, Maps, and Morals: Making Fire Risk Objective, 1850?1875
4. Muscle and Steam: Establishing Municipal Fire Departments, 1850?1875
Part III: Water
5. Disciplining the City: Everyday Practice and Mapping Risk, 1875?1900
6. Becoming Heroes: A Standard for Urban Fire Safety, 1875-1900
Part IV: Paper
7. Consuming Safety: Fire Prevention and Fire Risk in the Twentieth Century
8. Eating Smoke: Rational Heroes in the Twentieth Century
Conclusion: Fighting Fire in Postwar America
Appendix 1: Firefighting by the Numbers
Appendix 2: Firefighting Careers
Abbreviations
Notes
Essay on Sources
Index