Prometheus Tamed

Prometheus Tamed
Author: Cornel Zwierlein
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 563
Release: 2021-01-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9004431225


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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.